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Regicides of Charles I are considered to be the 59 Commissioners (Judges) who formed the tribunal that tried King Charles I of England and signed his death warrant, along with other officials who participated in his trial or execution, and Hugh Peters an influential republican preacher. Charles I (19 November 1600–30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625, until his death. ... Hugh Peters [or Peter] (June, 1598 - October 16, 1660), English Independent divine, son of Thomas Dyckwoode, alias Peters, descended from a family which had quitted the Netherlands to escape religious persecution, and of Martha, daughter of John Treffry of Treffry in Cornwall, was baptized on the 29th of June 1598...


The tribunal was composed of three hereditary peers; four aldermen of the City of London; twenty-two baronets and knights; three generals; thirty-four colonels; the twelve judges of the High Court (who all declined to serve); three sergeants-at-law and representative members of various principalities and the House of Commons.[1] Listen to this article (help) Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-06-08, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... An alderman is a member of a municipal legislative body in a town or city with many jurisdictions. ... The eastern side of the City of London viewed from St. ... A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) is the holder of a title, similar to a knighthood except that it is hereditary, known as a baronetcy. ... Jump to: navigation, search The silver Anglia knight, commisioned as a trophy in 1850, intended to represent the Black Prince. ... General is a military rank used by nearly every country in the world. ... Colonel (Spanish: Coronel; German: Oberst; Russian:Полко́вник/Polkovnik) is both a military rank and civilian title, used by nearly every country in the world. ... The term High Court could refer to one of the following institutions: High Court of England and Wales High Court of Australia The Four Courts of Ireland The High Court of Justiciary in Scotland And the 18 High Courts of India The High Court of Andhra Pradesh The High Court... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ...


At the English Restoration in 1660, six Commissioners and four others were found guilty of regicide and executed, one was hanged and nine were hanged, drawn and quartered. In 1662 three more regicides were hanged, drawn and quartered. Some others were pardoned, while a further nineteen served life imprisonment and three already dead at the time of the restoration had their bodies desecrated.[2] The English Restoration or simply Restoration was an episode in the history of Great Britain beginning in 1660 when the monarchy was restored under King Charles II after the English Civil War. ... Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ... The broad definition of Regicide is the deliberate killing of a king, or the person responsible for it. ... To be hanged, drawn and quartered was the penalty once ordained in England for treason. ...

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Commissioners

In the order in which they signed the death warrant, the Commissioners were:

  Name At the Restoration in 1660 Notes
1. John Bradshaw, President of the Court Dead Posthumous execution; disinterred and hanged, drawn, and quartered
2. Lord Grey of Groby Dead Died in 1657.
3. Oliver Cromwell Dead Posthumous execution; disinterred and hanged, drawn, and quartered
4. Edward Whalley Alive Fled to North America to avoid trial.
5. Sir Michael Livesey Alive Fled to the Netherlands.
6. John Okey Alive Fled to Germany, but was arrested by the English ambassador to the Netherlands Sir George Downing. He was tried found guilty and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1662.
7. Sir John Danvers Dead Died in 1655.
8. Sir John Bourchier Alive Too ill to be tried and died soon after the Restoration anyway.
9. Henry Ireton Dead Posthumous execution; disinterred and hanged, drawn, and quartered
10. Sir Thomas Mauleverer Dead Died 1655.
11. Sir Hardress Waller Alive Fled to France; later returned and was found guilty. Was sentenced to life imprisonment.
12. John Blakiston Dead Died 1649.
13. John Hutchinson Alive Imprisoned in Sandown Castle in Kent where he died on September 11, 1664
14. William Goffe Alive Fled to America.
15. Thomas Pride Dead Posthumous execution ordered but not carried out.
16. Peter Temple Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to death but sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He died in the Tower of London in 1663.
17. Thomas Harrison Alive First to be found guilty. Was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on Saturday the 13 October 1660. He was a leader of the Fifth Monarchists who still posed a threat to the restoration.
18. John Hewson Alive Fled to Amsterdam.
19. Henry Smith Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to death but sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He was held in the Tower of London until 1664 and was transported to Jersey.
20. Sir Peregrine Pelham Dead Died in 1650.
21. Richard Deane Dead Disinterred.
22. Robert Tichborne Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to death but was reprieved. He spent the rest of life imprisoned in the Tower of London
23. Humphrey Edwards Dead Died in 1658.
24. Daniel Blagrave Alive Fled to Aachen, in what is now Germany.
25. Owen Rowe Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Tower.
26. William Purefoy Dead Died in 1659.
27. Adrian Scroope Alive Tried, found guilty: hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on Wednesday 17 October 1660.
28. James Temple Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to life imprisonment on Jersey.
29. Augustine Garland Alive Brought to trial, his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
30. Edmund Ludlow Alive Surrendered to the Speaker of the House of Commons, and then escaped to the Canton of Bern.
31. Henry Marten Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide, and sentenced to life imprisonment in Chepstow Castle.
32. Vincent Potter Alive brought to trial, he received the death sentence but died before its execution.
33. Sir William Constable Dead Died in 1655 — however his body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey and reburied in a communal burial pit after the Restoration.
34. Richard Ingoldsby Alive Pardoned.
35. William Cawley Alive Escaped to Switzerland.
36. John Barkstead Alive Arrested by the English ambassador to the Netherlands Sir George Downing, extradited and executed in 1662
37. Isaac Ewer Dead Died in 1650 or 1651.
38. John Dixwell Alive Believed dead in England; fled to America.
39. Valentine Walton Alive Escaped to Germany after being condemned as a Regicide.
40. Simon Mayne Alive Tried and sentenced to death, he died in the Tower of London in 1661 before his appeal could be heard.
41. Thomas Horton Dead Family estates confiscated.
42. John Jones Maesygarnedd Alive Tried, found guilty: hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on Wednesday 17 October 1660.
43. John Moore Dead In 1649, fought in Ireland against the Marquess of Ormonde and became Governor of Dublin, dying of a fever there in 1650.
44. Gilbert Millington Alive After Charles's death, remained member of Rump Parliament until Cromwell dissolved it. After the Restoration was himself arraigned and confessed to being "guilty in every way." Tried and sentenced to death, but sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Spent final years in Jersey and died in 1666.
45. George Fleetwood Alive Brought to trial and sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London. He may have been transported to Tangier.
46. John Alured Dead Died in 1651.
47. Robert Lilburne Alive Tried 16 October 1660, sentenced to death. Later this was commuted to life imprisonment. Died in prison in August, 1665.
48. William Say Alive Escaped to Switzerland.
49. Anthony Stapley Dead Died in 1655.
50. Sir Gregory Norton Dead Died 1652
51. Thomas Challoner (or Challener) Alive Excluded from pardon and escaped to the Continent. In 1661, he died at Middelburg in the Netherlands.
52. Thomas Wogan Alive Held at York Castle until 1664 when he escaped to the Netherlands
53. John Venn Dead Died in 1650.
54. Gregory Clement Alive Went into hiding, captured, tried, found guilty; and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on 17 October 1660.
55. John Downes Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
56. Thomas Waite Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
57. Thomas Scot Alive Fled to Brussels, returned to England, was tried, found guilty; and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on Wednesday 17 October 1660. Died unrepentant.
58. John Carew Alive Joined Fifth Monarchists. Tried, found guilty; and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on Monday 15 October 1660.
59. Miles Corbet Alive Fled to the Netherlands; arrested by the English ambassador to the Netherlands Sir George Downing; extradited; tried; found guilty; and was hanged, drawn and quartered on April 19, 1662.

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Commissoners who did not sign

Name At the Restoration in 1660 Notes
James Challener (or Challoner) Alive
John Dove Alive
John Fry Alive
James Harrington Alive
William Hevingham Alive Found guilty of treason but successfully petitioned for mercy and was thereafter imprisoned in Windsor Castle until his death in 1678
Fra. Lassells Alive
John Lisle Alive Escaped to Lausanne in Switzerland but was shot by Irish Royalist Thomas Macdonnel in August 1664.
Thomas Lister Alive
Nicholas Love Alive Escaped to Hamburg.
Sir Henry Mildmay Alive Tried, stripped of his Knighthood and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died before he was due to be transported to Tangier in 1664.
Lord William Mounson Alive Tried, stripped of his property and imprisoned for life in the Fleet prison where he died in 1673.
Isaac Penington Alive Sentenced to life imprisonment and died in the Tower of London in 1661
Sir Gilbert Pickering Alive
Robert Wallop Alive Sentenced to life imprisonment and died in the Tower of London in 1667

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Associates

Name Office At the Restoration in 1660 Notes
Daniel Axtel Officer of the Guard Alive Tried, found guilty of participating in the regicide; hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on Thursday 19 October 1660.
Andrew Broughton Clerk of the Court Alive
John Cook Solicitor-General Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide; hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on Tuesday 16 October 1660.
Edward Dendy Serjeant-at-Arms Alive
Dr Isaac Dorislaus Assistant to the Solicitor-General Dead A distinguished scholar from the Netherlands, he was murdered in the Hague in 1649 by royalist refugees.
Francis Hacker Officer of the Guard Alive Tried, found guilty of signing the execution order; hanged at Tyburn on Thursday 19 October 1660. [3]
Cornelius Holland Alive
Hercules Huncks Officer of the Guard Alive Refused to sign the order to the executioners, which Hacker did instead. He testified against Axtel and Hacker, and was Pardoned.
Robert Phayre Officer of the Guard Alive Refused to sign the order to the executioners. Not tried and released in 1662
Hugh Peters Preacher Alive Tried, found guilty of inciting regicide; hanged, drawn, and quartered at Charing Cross on Tuesday 16 October 1660.
John Phelps Clerk of the Court Alive
Matthew Thomlinson Officer of the Guard Alive Pardoned for showing courtesy to the King and for testifying against Axtel and Hacker

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  • Edmond Harvey was a regicide who died Tower of London in 1662.[4]
  • Marquis of Argyll Found not guilty of regicide, but guilty of collaboration with Cromwell's government and behead 27 May 1661.
  • John Lambert was not in London for the trial of Charles I. At the restoration he was found guilty of high treason and remained in custody in Guernsey for the rest of his life.
  • Sir Harry Vane

Archibald Campbell Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess and 8th Earl of Argyll (1607 - 27 May 1661), eldest son of Archibald, 7th Earl, by his first wife, was educated at St Andrews University, where he matriculated on 15 January 1622. ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... Events January 6 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. ... John Lambert (1619 - 1684) served as an English Parliamentary general in the English Civil War. ...

See also

The broad definition of Regicide is the deliberate killing of a king, or the person responsible for it. ...

References

  • House of Lords Record Office: The Death Warrant of King Charles I
  • Complete list of the regicides of Charles I (www.british-civil-wars.co.uk)

External links

  • How many Regicides?

Notes

  1. ^ J de Morgan, "The Most Notable Trial in Modern History" in H W Fuller (ed) The Green Bag, vol xi, 1899, Boston, 307 at 308. || FOOTNOTE_14
  2. ^ The tral of King Charles I – defining moment for our constitutional liberties by The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, to the Anglo-Australasian Lawers' association, on January 22 1999.
  3. ^  Extacts from the transcript of the October 1660 trail and execution of 10 regicides At the end of the article there is a description of the executions. They were all hanged drawn and quartered apart from Francis Hacker who was hanged.
  4. ^ House of Lords Journal Volume 11 7 February 1662 Attainted Persons brought to the Bar

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List of regicides of Charles I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1401 words)
Regicides of Charles I are considered to be the fifty-nine Commissioners (Judges) who formed the tribunal that tried King Charles I of England and signed his death warrant, along with other officials who participated in his trial or execution, and Hugh Peters an influential republican preacher.
The tribunal was composed of three hereditary peers; four aldermen of the City of London; twenty-two baronets and knights; three generals; thirty-four colonels; the twelve judges of the High Court (who all declined to serve); three sergeants-at-law and representative members of various principalities and the House of Commons.
John Lambert was not in London for the trial of Charles I. At the restoration he was found guilty of high treason and remained in custody in Guernsey for the rest of his life.
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