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Here the court sat private, and the draught of the king's sentence being read before them, after several readings, debates, and amendments, they resolved to agree to it, ordered it to be engrossed, and that the king should next day be brought to Westminster to receive his sentence.

They met in the Painted Chamber, according to their adjournment on the 27th, where were present sixty-eight of them, of whom John Brownly and Thomas Challoner were two; the rest were the same that adjourned afterwards into the hall, only Isaac Pennington was not among the former. Having agreed that the sentence should be read that that day in Westminster-hall, it was ordered that the president should address the king according to his discretion, with the advice of his two assistants, and that in case the king persisted to except against the court's jurisdiction, to let him know that the court did still affirm their jurisdiction; that in case he should submit to the jurisdiction of the court, and pray a copy of the charge, that the court was to withdraw