did tell him of his affronting the
King.

COUNSEL--Mr. Peters, if you have any thing to ask this witness,
you may.

PETERS--I have many things to ask him. Did I ever lie there?

STARKEY--No.

PETERS--Did you see me there at three o'clock in the morning?

STARKEY--I have seen you go up at ten o'clock at night to Mr.
Ireton's chamber, and sometimes I understood you did not go away
till four o'clock in the morning: I went to bed it is true, but
I understood it so.

_Thomas Walkely_ saw Cromwell, Goodwin, Peters, and others in the
Painted Chamber at Westminster on the day after the proclamation for the
trial of the King was made. Goodwin sat in the middle of the table and
made a long speech or prayer, and then it was ordered that strangers
should leave the room, and Walkely went out, and afterwards saw Peters
leave the room with the others. When the King was brought to London as a
prisoner, Walkely 'saw his majesty in his coach with six horses and
Peters, like a bishop almoner, riding before the king triumphing.'

_Proctor_ also saw the King driving into London with the prisoner riding
before him, the King sitting alone in his coach. 'My Lord, I did put off
my hat, and he was graciously pleased to put off his hat; the troopers
seeing this, they threw me into the ditch, horse and all, where I stayed
till they pass by, and was glad I escaped so.'

_Hardwick_ heard the proclamation for the High Court of Justice made in
Westminster Hall, and afterwards Peters came into Palace Yard and told
the officers there that the proclamation must also be made in Cheapside
and at the Old Exchange.

_Holland Simpson_ saw the sitting of the High Court; he saw Peters
there, but not as a judge.

There was one day in the hall colonel Stubbards, who was
adjutant-general (he was a very busy man) and colonel Axtel; Mr.
Peters going down the stairs, comes to him, and bids Stubbards
to command the soldiers to cry out 'justice, justice, against
the traitor at the bar.'

COUNSEL--Who did he mean?

SIMPSON--The King was at the bar at the same time; whereupon, my
lord, the soldiers did cry out upon the same; and as the King
was taken away to sir Robert Cotton's some of them spit in the
King's face, but he took his handkerchief, wiped it off, and
smiled.

_Thomas Richardson_ and _Sir Jeremy Whichcot_ spoke to casual
expressions of Peters which showed appr