books.google.ie - Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 Parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke, whose Puritan conscience, political vision,...http://books.google.ie/books/about/The_Tyrannicide_Brief.html?id=qpLsBHfKF5kC&q=defendant&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Tyrannicide Brief
