List of regicides of Charles I
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The regicides of Charles I, under the Indemnity and Oblivion Act
Indemnity and Oblivion Act
The Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660 is an Act of the Parliament of England , the long title of which is "An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion"....

, 1660, and subsequent trials, were judged to be the 59 Commissioners (judges) who sat in judgement at the trial
High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I
The High Court of Justice is the name given to the court established by the Rump Parliament to try King Charles I of England. This was an ad hoc tribunal created specifically for the purpose of trying the king, although the same name was used again for subsequent courts.Neither the involvement of...

 of King Charles I
Charles I of England
Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

 and signed his death warrant in 1649, along with other officials who participated in his trial or execution, and Hugh Peters
Hugh Peters
Hugh Peters [or Peter] was an English preacher.-Early life:He was baptized on 29 June 1598 in Fowey, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge....

, an influential republican preacher.

The tribunal was composed of three hereditary peer
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s, four aldermen
Alderman
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 of the City of London
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, twenty-two baronet
Baronet
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s and knight
Knight
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s, three general
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s, thirty-four colonel
Colonel
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s, the twelve judges of the High Court
High Court of Justice
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 (who all declined to serve), three serjeants-at-law and representative members of various principalities and the House of Commons
British House of Commons
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

.

At the English Restoration
English Restoration
The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

 in 1660, six Commissioners and four others were found guilty of regicide
Regicide
The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a monarch, or the person responsible for the killing of a monarch. In a narrower sense, in the British tradition, it refers to the judicial execution of a king after a trial...

 and executed; one was hanged and nine were hanged, drawn and quartered
Hanged, drawn and quartered
To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III and his successor, Edward I...

. 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.

Of those regicides and associates who escaped Charles II, seven fled to Switzerland
Switzerland
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, four to the Netherlands
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, and four to Germany
Germany
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. Three Commissioners, John Dixwell
John Dixwell
John Dixwell was one of the judges who tried King Charles I of England and condemned him to death.-Biography:He was the younger son of Edgar Dixwell, but was raised by his uncle Basil Dixwell of Broome Park, near Canterbury in Kent...

, Edward Whalley
Edward Whalley
Edward Whalley was an English military leader during the English Civil War, and was one of the regicides who signed the death warrant of King Charles I of England.-Early career:The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown...

 and William Goffe
William Goffe
William Goffe was an English Roundhead politician and soldier, perhaps best known for his role in the execution of King Charles I and later flight to America.-Early life:...

, reunited in New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...

 in 1661. All died natural deaths in the 1670s and are commemorated by three intersecting major avenues in New Haven (Dixwell Avenue, Whalley Avenue, and Goffe Street), and by place names in other Connecticut towns.

Commissioners

In the order in which they signed the death warrant, the Commissioners were:
  Name At the Restoration
English Restoration
The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

 in 1660
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1. John Bradshaw
John Bradshaw (judge)
John Bradshaw was an English judge. He is most notable for his role as President of the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I and as the first Lord President of the Council of State of the English Commonwealth....

, President of the Court
Dead Posthumous execution
Posthumous execution
Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment.-Examples:* Li Linfu, Chancellor of Tang China during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong in the latter years, was exhumed and executed for crimes of high treason by his rival Yang Guozhong for his...

; disinterred and hanged, drawn and quartered.
2. Lord Grey of Groby  Dead Died in 1657.
3. Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

 
Dead Posthumous execution
Posthumous execution
Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment.-Examples:* Li Linfu, Chancellor of Tang China during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong in the latter years, was exhumed and executed for crimes of high treason by his rival Yang Guozhong for his...

; disinterred and hanged, drawn and quartered.
4. Edward Whalley
Edward Whalley
Edward Whalley was an English military leader during the English Civil War, and was one of the regicides who signed the death warrant of King Charles I of England.-Early career:The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown...

 
Alive Fled to North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

 to avoid trial. Alive but in poor health in 1674, and probably did not live long afterwards.
5. Sir Michael Livesey
Michael Livesey
Sir Michael Livesey, 1st Baronet was one of the regicides of King Charles I.A Kentish baronet of Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey, Livesey was a zealous Puritan who sided with Parliament during the civil wars. He became active on the Kent county committee and was appointed Sheriff of Kent in 1643...

 
Alive Fled to the Netherlands
Netherlands
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.
6. John Okey
John Okey
John Okey was an English soldier, member of Parliament, and one of the regicides of King Charles I.-Early life and military career:...

 
Alive Fled to Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, but was arrested by the English ambassador to the Netherlands, Sir George Downing
Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet
Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman, and diplomat. Downing Street in London is named after him. As Treasury Secretary he is credited with instituting major reforms in public finance. His influence was substantial on the passage and substance of the mercantilist...

. He was tried found guilty and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1662.
7. Sir John Danvers
John Danvers
Sir John Danvers was an English courtier and politician. He was one of the signatories of the death warrant of Charles I.-Life:Danvers was third and youngest son of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, by Elizabeth Danvers...

 
Dead Died in 1655.
8. Sir John Bourchier  Alive Too ill to be tried and died soon after the Restoration in 1660.
9. Henry Ireton
Henry Ireton
Henry Ireton was an English general in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War. He was the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell.-Early life:...

 
Dead Posthumous execution
Posthumous execution
Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment.-Examples:* Li Linfu, Chancellor of Tang China during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong in the latter years, was exhumed and executed for crimes of high treason by his rival Yang Guozhong for his...

; disinterred and hanged, drawn and quartered.
10. Sir Thomas Mauleverer
Thomas Mauleverer
Sir Thomas Mauleverer, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Mauleverer was born into an ancient family with large estates in Yorkshire. His father, Sir Richard Mauleverer , had been High Sheriff of Yorkshire and Mauleverer served as a Justice of the Peace in the West Riding...

 
Dead Died 1655.
11. Sir Hardress Waller
Hardress Waller
Sir Hardress Waller , cousin of Sir William Waller, was an English parliamentarian of note.-Life:Born in Groombridge, Kent, and descendant of Sir Richard Waller of Groombridge Place, Waller was knighted by Charles I in 1629...

 
Alive Fled to France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

; later returned and was found guilty. Sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Died 1666 in prison on Jersey.
12. John Blakiston
John Blakiston
John Blakiston , was a member of the English parliament, one of the regicides of King Charles I of England, a prominent mercer and coal merchant, puritan and anti-Episcopalian.-Biography:...

 
Dead Died 1649.
13. John Hutchinson
John Hutchinson (Colonel)
Colonel John Hutchinson was one of the Puritan leaders, and a prominent Roundhead in the English Civil War to the extent of being the 13th of 39 Commissioners to sign the death-warrant of King Charles I.-Biography:...

 
Alive Imprisoned in Sandown Castle, Kent
Sandown Castle, Kent
Sandown Castle was one of Henry VIII's Device Forts or Henrician Castles built at Sandown, North Deal, Kent as part of Henry VIII's chain of coastal fortifications to defend England against the threat of foreign invasion. It made up a line of defences with Walmer Castle and Deal Castle to protect...

 where he died on 11 September 1664.
14. William Goffe
William Goffe
William Goffe was an English Roundhead politician and soldier, perhaps best known for his role in the execution of King Charles I and later flight to America.-Early life:...

 
Alive Fled to America and died in 1679.
15. Thomas Pride
Thomas Pride
Thomas Pride was a parliamentarian general in the English Civil War, and best known as the instigator of "Pride's Purge".-Early Life and Starting Career:...

 
Dead Posthumous execution
Posthumous execution
Posthumous execution is the ritual or ceremonial mutilation of an already dead body as a punishment.-Examples:* Li Linfu, Chancellor of Tang China during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong in the latter years, was exhumed and executed for crimes of high treason by his rival Yang Guozhong for his...

 ordered but not carried out.
16. Peter Temple
Peter Temple (regicide)
Peter Temple was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1645 and 1653. He was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England....

 
Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to death but sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He died in the Tower of London
Tower of London
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space...

 in 1663.
17. Thomas Harrison  Alive First to be found guilty. Was hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross
Charing Cross
Charing Cross denotes the junction of Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street, just south of Trafalgar Square in central London, England. It is named after the now demolished Eleanor cross that stood there, in what was once the hamlet of Charing. The site of the cross is now occupied by an equestrian...

 on Saturday 13 October 1660. He was a leader of the Fifth Monarchists
Fifth Monarchists
The Fifth Monarchists or Fifth Monarchy Men were active from 1649 to 1661 during the Interregnum, following the English Civil Wars of the 17th century. They took their name from a prophecy in the Book of Daniel that four ancient monarchies would precede Christ's return...

 who still posed a threat to the restoration.
18. John Hewson
John Hewson (regicide)
Colonel John Hewson was a soldier in the New Model Army and signed the death warrant of King Charles I, making him a regicide.-Life:...

 
Alive Fled to Amsterdam
Amsterdam
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. Died 1662.
19. Henry Smith
Henry Smith (regicide)
Henry Smith was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.He was born in Withcote, Leicestershire in 1620; son of Henry Smith born in 1589 and Frideswide Wright. He studied at Oxford University and Lincoln's Inn. He married miss Holland.In 1640 he was elected...

 
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 Mont Orgueil
Mont Orgueil
Mont Orgueil is a castle in Jersey. It is located overlooking the harbour of Gorey. It is also called Gorey Castle by English-speakers, and lé Vièr Châté by Jèrriais-speakers....

 castle in Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...

. Died 1668.
20. Sir Peregrine Pelham
Peregrine Pelham
Sir Peregrine Pelham was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.Pelham was a prosperous merchant in Hull before becoming town sheriff in 1636 and the MP for Hull in 1641. In 1642 along with Sir John Hotham, he barred the entry of King Charles into the City, and...

 
Dead Died in 1650.
21. Richard Deane
Richard Deane
Richard Deane , English general-at-sea, major-general and regicide, was a younger son of Edward Deane of Temple Guiting or Guyting in Gloucestershire, where he was born, his baptism taking place on 8 July 1610...

 
Dead Died in 1653. Disinterred.
22. Robert Tichborne
Robert Tichborne
Sir Robert Tichborne , was an English soldier who fought in the English Civil War and a regicide of Charles I.Before the war he was a linen-draper by trade. In 1643 he was a captain in the London trained bands. He was lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1647. He was an extreme republican and...

 
Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to death but was reprieved. He spent the rest of life imprisoned in the Tower of London
Tower of London
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 Died 1682.
23. Humphrey Edwards
Humphrey Edwards
Humphrey Edwards was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.Edwards was a regicide; he joined the parliamentarian side in the English Civil War, finding loyalty to Charles I pecuniarily unprofitable; he was M.P...

 
Dead Died in 1658.
24. Daniel Blagrave
Daniel Blagrave
Daniel Blagrave was a prominent resident of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. He was Member of Parliament for the Parliamentary Borough of Reading over several periods between 1640 and 1660, and was also one of the signatories of King Charles I's death warrant.Daniel...

 
Alive Fled to Aachen
Aachen
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, in what is now Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Died 1668.
25. Owen Rowe
Owen Rowe
Owen Rowe, , was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.Rowe worked as haberdasher in London; took part in foundation of colonies of Massachusetts and the Bermudas; captain of green regiment of London trained bands, 1642; colonel, 1646; member of court which tried Charles I, and signed...

 
Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Tower of London where he died in December 1661.
26. William Purefoy
William Purefoy
William Purefoy was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England....

 
Dead Died in 1659.
27. Adrian Scroope
Adrian Scrope
Colonel Adrian Scrope was the twenty seventh of the fifty nine Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross after the restoration of Charles II.-Early life:...

 
Alive Tried, found guilty: hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on Wednesday 17 October 1660.
28. James Temple
James Temple
James Temple was a puritan and English Civil War soldier who was convicted of the regicide of Charles I. Born in Rochester, Kent, to a well-connected gentry family, he was the second of two sons of Sir Alexander Temple, although his elder brother died in 1627...

 
Alive Brought to trial, sentenced to life imprisonment on Jersey
Jersey
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. Died 17 February 1680.
29. Augustine Garland
Augustine Garland
Augustine Garland was an English lawyer, and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.Garland was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn. He was M.P. for Queenborough in 1648. He presided over the committee to consider method of the king's trial, and in 1649 signed...

 
Alive Brought to trial, his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
30. Edmund Ludlow
Edmund Ludlow
Edmund Ludlow was an English parliamentarian, best known for his involvement in the execution of Charles I, and for his Memoirs, which were published posthumously in a rewritten form and which have become a major source for historians of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. After service in the English...

 
Alive Surrendered to the Speaker of the House of Commons
Speaker of the British House of Commons
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament. The current Speaker is John Bercow, who was elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin...

, and then escaped to the Canton of Bern. Died 1692.
31. Sir Henry Marten
Henry Marten (regicide)
Sir Henry Marten was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1640 and 1653...

 
Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide
Regicide
The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a monarch, or the person responsible for the killing of a monarch. In a narrower sense, in the British tradition, it refers to the judicial execution of a king after a trial...

, and sentenced to life imprisonment in Chepstow Castle
Chepstow Castle
Chepstow Castle , located in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in Wales, on top of cliffs overlooking the River Wye, is the oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification in Britain...

. Died 1680.
32. Vincent Potter
Vincent Potter
Vincent Potter was an army officer in Parliament's army during the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.-Early life and career:...

 
Alive Brought to trial, he received the death sentence but died before its execution. Died either 1661 or 1662.
33. Sir William Constable  Dead Died in 1655 — however his body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English,...

 and reburied in a communal burial pit after the Restoration.
34. Richard Ingoldsby
Richard Ingoldsby
Colonel Sir Richard Ingoldsby was an English officer in the New Model Army during the English Civil War and a politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1647 and 1685...

 
Alive Pardoned. Died 1685.
35. William Cawley
William Cawley
William Cawley was a regicide and seventeenth century English politician. He was born in Chichester in 1602, the son of a wealthy brewer, and was educated at Chichester Grammar School, Oxford University and Gray's Inn....

 
Alive Escaped to Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. Died 1667.
36. John Barkstead
John Barkstead
John Barkstead was an English Major-General and Regicide.Barkstead was a goldsmith in London; captain of parliamentary infantry under Colonel Venn; governor of Reading, 1645: commanded regiment at siege of Colchester; one of the king's judges, 1648; governor of Yarmouth, 1649, and of the Tower,...

 
Alive Arrested by the English ambassador to the Netherlands Sir George Downing
Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet
Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman, and diplomat. Downing Street in London is named after him. As Treasury Secretary he is credited with instituting major reforms in public finance. His influence was substantial on the passage and substance of the mercantilist...

, extradited and executed in 1662.
37. Isaac Ewer
Isaac Ewer
Isaac Ewer was an English soldier and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.-Biography:He was probably born in Essex; in his will he describes himself as of Hatfield Broad Oak and before the Civil War was "but a serving-man"....

 
Dead Died in 1650 or 1651.
38. John Dixwell
John Dixwell
John Dixwell was one of the judges who tried King Charles I of England and condemned him to death.-Biography:He was the younger son of Edgar Dixwell, but was raised by his uncle Basil Dixwell of Broome Park, near Canterbury in Kent...

 
Alive Believed dead in England; fled to America, where he died under an assumed name. Died 1689.
39. Valentine Walton
Valentine Walton
Valentine Walton was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.Walton was of very ancient, and knightly family of Great Staughton, in Huntingdonshire. Upon a vacancy he was returned a member of the Long Parliament for the county of Huntingdon...

 
Alive Escaped to Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 after being condemned as a regicide. Died 1661.
40. Simon Mayne
Simon Mayne
Simon Mayne was a Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.Simon was born and lived at Dinton Hall in Buckinghamshire, the son of Simon Mayne Snr and his wife, Colubria the sister of Richard Lovelace, 1st Baron Lovelace. His father died when he was only five,...

 
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. Had died 1649.
42. John Jones Maesygarnedd
John Jones Maesygarnedd
Colonel John Jones was a Welsh military leader, politician and one of the regicides of King Charles I. A brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell, Jones was born at Llanbedr in North Wales and is often surnamed Jones Maesygarnedd after the location of his Merionethshire estate. Jones spoke Welsh with his...

 
Alive Tried, found guilty: hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on Wednesday 17 October 1660.
43. John Moore
John Moore (regicide)
Colonel John Moore was one of the regicides of King Charles I.John Moore was born into one of the oldest noble Moore families in England in 1599. By the early 1640s, John Moore was heavily involved with the early shipping trade, forging connections in Barbados...

 
Dead In 1649, fought in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 against the Marquess of Ormonde
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde PC was an Irish statesman and soldier. He was the second of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom. He was the friend of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, who appointeed him commander of the Cavalier forces in Ireland. From 1641 to 1647, he...

 and became Governor of Dublin, dying of a fever
Fever
Fever is a common medical sign characterized by an elevation of temperature above the normal range of due to an increase in the body temperature regulatory set-point. This increase in set-point triggers increased muscle tone and shivering.As a person's temperature increases, there is, in...

 there in 1650.
44. Gilbert Millington
Gilbert Millington
Gilbert Millington was a barrister and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.Millington was the eldest son of Anthony Millington of Felley Abbey, Nottinghamshire and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, becaming a member of Lincoln's Inn in 1614.He was elected as an M.P...

 
Alive After Charles's death, remained member of Rump Parliament
Rump Parliament
The Rump Parliament is the name of the English Parliament after Colonel Pride purged the Long Parliament on 6 December 1648 of those members hostile to the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason....

 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
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...

 and died in 1666.
45. George Fleetwood
George Fleetwood (regicide)
George Fleetwood was an English Major-General and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.Fleetwood was one of the commissioners for trial of Charles I, 1648–9; member of last Commonwealth Council of State and M.P...

 
Alive Brought to trial and sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London. He may have been transported to Tangier
Tangier
Tangier, also Tangiers is a city in northern Morocco with a population of about 700,000 . It lies on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel...

. Died 1672?
46. John Alured
John Alured
John Alured was an army officer who fought for the parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I in 1649....

 
Dead Died in 1651.
47. Robert Lilburne
Robert Lilburne
thumb|right|Robert LilburneColonel Robert Lilburne was the older brother of John Lilburne, the well known Leveller, but unlike his brother who severed his relationship with Oliver Cromwell, Robert Lilburne remained in the army...

 
Alive Tried Tuesday 16 October 1660, sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment. Died in prison in August 1665.
48. William Say
William Say
William Say was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.Say was educated at University College, Oxford and the Middle Temple before being called to the Bar in 1631...

 
Alive Escaped to Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. Died 1666.
49. Anthony Stapley
Anthony Stapley
Anthony Stapley was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.Stapley was M.P. for New Shoreham , Lewes , Sussex . He was colonel and governor of Chichester and signed the death-warrant of Charles I...

 
Dead Died in 1655.
50. Sir Gregory Norton  Dead Died 1652.
51. Thomas Challoner
Thomas Chaloner (regicide)
Thomas Chaloner was an English politician, commissioner at the trial of Charles I and signatory to his death warrant.He was born at Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, and was the son of naturalist Sir Thomas Chaloner....

 
Alive Excluded from pardon and escaped to the Continent. In 1661, he died at Middelburg in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

.
52. Thomas Wogan
Thomas Wogan
Thomas Wogan was a Welsh Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.Wogan was the son of Sir John Wogan, who was MP for Pembrokeshire and High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire. In 1646 Thomas Wogan was elected MP for Cardigan Boroughs. During the Second Civil War, he fought on the...

 
Alive Held at York Castle
York Castle
York Castle in the city of York, England, is a fortified complex comprising, over the last nine centuries, a sequence of castles, prisons, law courts and other buildings on the south side of the River Foss. The now-ruinous keep of the medieval Norman castle is sometimes referred to as Clifford's...

 until 1664 when he escaped to the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

.
53. John Venn
John Venn (regicide)
John Venn was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1641 to 1650. He was one of the regicides of King Charles I....

 
Dead Died in 1650.
54. Gregory Clement
Gregory Clement
Gregory Clement was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.Clement was the son of John Clement, a merchant and one time Mayor of Plymouth. After working in India for the British East India Company, Clement returned to London and on outbreak of the Civil War...

 
Alive Went into hiding, captured, tried, found guilty; and hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on Wednesday 17 October 1660.
55. John Downes
John Downes (regicide)
Colonel John Downes was a commissioner who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England. After the English Restoration he was found guilty of regicide and was imprisoned until he died....

 
Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Died 1666.
56. Thomas Waite
Thomas Waite (regicide)
Thomas Waite, also known as Thomas Wayte was an English soldier who fought for Parliament in the English Civil War, a member of the Long Parliament, and one of the regicides of King Charles I....

 
Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Died 1668.
57. Thomas Scot
Thomas Scot
Thomas Scot was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I.- Early life :In 1626 Thomas Scot married Alice Allinson of Chesterford in Essex. He was a lawyer in Buckinghamshire and grew to prominence as the treasurer of the region’s County Committee between 1644 to...

 
Alive Fled to Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

, returned to England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, was tried, found guilty; and hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on Wednesday 17 October 1660. Died unrepentant.
58. John Carew
John Carew (regicide)
John Carew , from Antony, Cornwall, was one of the regicides of King Charles I.Elected MP for Tregony in 1647, he was a prominent member of the Fifth Monarchy Men who saw the overthrow of Charles I as a divine sign of the second coming of Jesus and the establishment of the millennium a thousand...

 
Alive Joined Fifth Monarchists
Fifth Monarchists
The Fifth Monarchists or Fifth Monarchy Men were active from 1649 to 1661 during the Interregnum, following the English Civil Wars of the 17th century. They took their name from a prophecy in the Book of Daniel that four ancient monarchies would precede Christ's return...

. Tried, found guilty; and hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on Monday 15 October 1660.
59. Miles Corbet
Miles Corbet
Miles Corbet was an English politician, recorder of Yarmouth and Regicide.-Life:He was the son of Sir Thomas Corbet of Sprowston, Norfolk and the younger brother of Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, MP for Great Yarmouth from 1625 to 1629...

 
Alive Fled to the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

; arrested by the English ambassador to the Netherlands Sir George Downing
Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet
Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman, and diplomat. Downing Street in London is named after him. As Treasury Secretary he is credited with instituting major reforms in public finance. His influence was substantial on the passage and substance of the mercantilist...

; extradited; tried; found guilty; and was hanged, drawn and quartered on 19 April 1662.

Commissioners who did not sign

Name At the Restoration
English Restoration
The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

 in 1660
Notes
Sir Thomas Andrewes
Thomas Andrewes
Sir Thomas Andrewes was a London financier who supported the parliamentary cause during the English Civil Wars, and sat as a commissioner at the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I. During the Third English Civil War, as Lord Mayor of London, he made sure that there was no trouble in...

 (or Andrews)
Dead Attended 3 session including 27 January when the sentence was agreed upon. His name was one of 24 dead regicides who were excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act on 9 June 1660 (see section XXXVIII of the act).
Francis Allen
Francis Allen (regicide)
Francis Allen , was an English financier, politician and regicide who sided with parliament in the civil War against Charles I....

Dead Attended several session including the 27 January when the sentence was agreed upon. His name was one of 24 dead regicides who were excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act on 9 June 1660 (see section XXXVIII of the act).
James Challoner
James Chaloner
James Chaloner was an English politician on the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War, and commissioner at the trial of King Charles I.On the 10 April 1648 he became the Member of Parliament for Aldborough, Yorkshire...

 (or Chaloner)
Alive Brother of Thomas Challoner
Thomas Chaloner (regicide)
Thomas Chaloner was an English politician, commissioner at the trial of Charles I and signatory to his death warrant.He was born at Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, and was the son of naturalist Sir Thomas Chaloner....

. He died in July 1660 from an illness caught after being imprisoned the previous year for supporting General Monck.
John Dove
John Dove
John Dove was a parliamentary politician during the English Civil War and Interregnum. He has sometimes been numbered amongst the regicides; however, although he sat as a Commissioner in the trial of Charles I at the Painted Chamber of the Palace of Westminster on the 12th, 13th, 19th, and 26th of...

Alive He took no part in the trial other than being present when the sentence was agreed on. At the Restoration he was contrite and, after making an abject submission to Parliament, he was allowed to depart unpunished. Died 1664 or 1665.
John Fry
John Fry (regicide)
John Fry was a Member of the English Parliament and sat as a Commissioner during the trial of King Charles I of England.John Fry, son of William Fry of Iwerneminster, was born in 1609...

Dead He was debarred from sitting on the High Court for heterodoxy
Heterodoxy
Heterodoxy is generally defined as "any opinions or doctrines at variance with an official or orthodox position". As an adjective, heterodox is commonly used to describe a subject as "characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards"...

 on 26 January 1649, one day before the sentence was pronounced. His name was one of 20 dead regicides who were excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act on 9 June 1660. Died 1657.
Thomas Hammond
Thomas Hammond (regicide)
Thomas Hammond , was an officer in the New Model Army and a regicide.Hammond was the third son of the five children of Dr John Hammond , physician to the royal household under James I....

Dead Attended 14 sessions. He was excepted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, allowing the state to confiscate the property that had belonged to him.
Sir James Harrington, 3rd Baronet Alive Escaped and died in exile on the European mainland in 1680. Due to an oversight in the Indemnity and Oblivion Act
Indemnity and Oblivion Act
The Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660 is an Act of the Parliament of England , the long title of which is "An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion"....

, although he lost his title, the baronet
Baronet
A baronet or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess , is the holder of a hereditary baronetcy awarded by the British Crown...

cy passed to the next in line on his death.
Edmond Harvey
Edmund Harvey
Edmund Harvey or Hervey was an English soldier and member of Parliament during the English Civil War, who sat as a commissioner at the Trial of King Charles I and helped to draw up the final charge...

Alive Attended the King's trial and sat on the committee to prepare the final charge, but did not sign the death warrant. After the Restoration he was held in the Tower of London after being attainted for high treason He was tried on Tuesday 16 October 1660, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in Pendennis Castle
Pendennis Castle
Pendennis Castle is a Henrician castle, also known as one of Henry VIII's Device Forts, in the English county of Cornwall. It was built in 1539 for King Henry VIII to guard the entrance to the River Fal on its west bank, near Falmouth. St Mawes Castle is its opposite number on the east bank and...

, Cornwall, in June 1673.
William Heveningham
William Heveningham
William Heveningham was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1653. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of Charles I of England....

Alive Found guilty of treason but successfully petitioned for mercy and was thereafter imprisoned in Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle is a medieval castle and royal residence in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, notable for its long association with the British royal family and its architecture. The original castle was built after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror. Since the time of Henry I it...

 until his death in 1678.
Francis Lassells Alive Not excluded from the general pardon under the Indemnity and Oblivion Act
Indemnity and Oblivion Act
The Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660 is an Act of the Parliament of England , the long title of which is "An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion"....

, but he was ordered to pay one year's rent on his estate to Charles II and along with John Hutchinson
John Hutchinson (Colonel)
Colonel John Hutchinson was one of the Puritan leaders, and a prominent Roundhead in the English Civil War to the extent of being the 13th of 39 Commissioners to sign the death-warrant of King Charles I.-Biography:...

 forbidden to hold any public office. Died 1667.
John Lisle
John Lisle
Sir John Lisle was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England...

Alive Escaped to Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...

 in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 but was shot or stabbed by Irish
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 Royalist James Cotter
James Fitz Edmond Cotter
Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter was a soldier, a colonial governor and the commander-in-chief of King James's forces, in the Irish Counties of Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Kerry. He was a prominent political figure in the south of Ireland and was of Royalist and Jacobite sympathies. He was also a...

 (using the alias Thomas Macdonnell) in August 1664.
Thomas Lister
Thomas Lister (Regicide)
Thomas Lister was colonel in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War and an MP. He was appointed a judge at the trial of Charles I, but on the restoration escaped with a light punishment.-Early life:...

Alive He petitioned Parliament successfully that he was not present when the King was tried and sentenced, and although he was excluded from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, he was merely banned for life from holding any office. Died 1668.
Nicholas Love
Nicholas Love
Nicholas Love was an English lawyer and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.Love was educated at Wadham College, Oxford; M.A., 1636; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1636. He was elected M.P. for Winchester in 1645. Love was one of the judges at the trial of Charles I, but did not sign the...

Alive Escaped to Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. Died in Vevey, Switzerland in 1682.
Sir Henry Mildmay
Henry Mildmay
Sir Henry Mildmay was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War and was one of the Regicides of Charles I of England....

Alive Tried, stripped of his Knighthood and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died before he was due to be transported to Tangier
Tangier
Tangier, also Tangiers is a city in northern Morocco with a population of about 700,000 . It lies on the North African coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel...

 in 1664.
William Mounson, 1st Viscount Monson
William Monson, 1st Viscount Monson
William Monson, 1st Viscount Monson was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.William Monson was son of Sir Thomas Monson. He was created Viscount Monson of Castlemaine in 1628 and knighted in 1633. He was elected M.P. for Reigate in 1640, 1645 and 1648. He was nominated as one of...

Alive Tried, stripped of his titles & property and imprisoned for life in the Fleet Prison
Fleet Prison
Fleet Prison was a notorious London prison by the side of the Fleet River in London. The prison was built in 1197 and was in use until 1844. It was demolished in 1846.- History :...

 where he died in 1673.
Isaac Penington Alive Sentenced to life imprisonment and died in the Tower of London
Tower of London
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the City of London by the open space...

 in 1661.
Sir Gilbert Pickering
Gilbert Pickering
Sir Gilbert Pickering, 1st Baronet was a regicide, a member of the English Council of State during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and a member of Cromwell's Upper House.-Biography:...

Alive He only attended two sittings at the trial and he did not sign Charles's death warrant, so he was able to use the influence of his brother-in-law Earl of Sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, KG was an English Infantry officer who later became a naval officer. He was the only surviving son of Sir Sidney Montagu, and was brought up at Hinchingbrooke House....

, to secure his pardon, although he was banned for life from holding any office.
Robert Wallop
Robert Wallop
Robert Wallop was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times from 1621 to 1660. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England....

Alive Sentenced to life imprisonment and died in the Tower of London in 1667.
Sir Thomas Fairfax Alive He refused to sign and was later given a royal pardon and was allowed to keep his titles despite his involvement as Lord General of the Parliamentarian Forces.

Associates

Name OfficeAt the Restoration
English Restoration
The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

 in 1660
Notes
Daniel Axtell
Daniel Axtell
Colonel Daniel Axtell was Captain of the Parliamentary Guard at the trial of King Charles I at Westminster Hall in 1649. Shortly after the Restoration he was hanged, drawn and quartered as a regicide....

 
Officer of the Guard Alive Tried, found guilty of participating in the regicide; hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn
Tyburn, London
Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn or Teo Bourne 'boundary stream', a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the...

 on Thursday 19 October 1660.
Andrew Broughton
Andrew Broughton
Andrew Broughton was Clerk of the Court at the High Court of Justice for the trial King Charles I of England.There are not many records of his early life. He was probably born in Seaton, Rutland as the younger son of Richard Broughton...

Clerk of the Court Alive Escaped to Switzerland in 1663. Died 1687.
John Cooke Solicitor-General Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide; hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on Tuesday 16 October 1660.
Edward Dendy
Edward Dendy (regicide)
Edward Dendy was a regicide who helped to facilitate the trial of Charles I.Dendy was the son of Edward Dendy, serjeant-at-arms. Dendy inherited his fathers position and served as serjeant-at-arms in the Long Parliament and for the Rump...

Serjeant-at-Arms
Serjeant-at-Arms
A Sergeant-at-Arms is an officer appointed by a deliberative body, usually a legislature, to keep order during its meetings. The word sergeant is derived from the Latin serviens, which means "servant"....

Alive Escaped to Switzerland in 1663.
Dr Isaac Dorislaus
Isaac Dorislaus
Isaac Dorislaus was an Anglo-Dutch lawyer and diplomat.He was the son of a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church. He was educated at Leiden, removed to England about 1627, and was appointed to a lectureship in history at Cambridge, where his attempt to justify the Dutch revolt against Spain led to...

Assistant to the Solicitor-General Dead A distinguished scholar from the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, he was murdered in the Hague in 1649 by royalist refugees.
Francis Hacker
Francis Hacker
Colonel Francis Hacker was an English soldier who fought for Parliament during the English Civil War and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England....

Officer of the Guard Alive Tried, found guilty of signing the execution order; hanged at Tyburn
Tyburn, London
Tyburn was a village in the county of Middlesex close to the current location of Marble Arch in present-day London. It took its name from the Tyburn or Teo Bourne 'boundary stream', a tributary of the River Thames which is now completely covered over between its source and its outfall into the...

 on 19 October 1660.
William Hewlett
William Hewlett (regicide)
On 30 January 1649, Captain William Hewlett was the officer in charge of the soldiers at the execution of Charles I.After the Restoration, Captain Hewlett was convicted on 15 October 1660 for his part in the regicide of Charles I on January 30, 1649, but was not executed along with the other men...

Captain in the Guard Alive Found guilty of regicide at the same trial as Daniel Axtel, but not executed with him.
Cornelius Holland
Cornelius Holland (regicide)
Cornelius Holland Born London, England; died possibly at Lausanne, Switzerland about 1671, after he was wanted for his part in the regicide of Charles I of England....

Member of Council of State Alive Escaped to Lausanne, Switzerland at Restoration. Died 1671.
Hercules Huncks
Hercules Huncks
Hercules Huncks was an English soldier and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.Hercules Huncks was born in Warwickshire. Although the rest of his family were Royalist, he joined the Parliamentarians and attained the rank of colonel in the New Model Army...

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. Died 1660.
Robert Phayre
Robert Phayre
Robert Phayre was a soldier and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.Son of a Devonshire clergyman who emigrated to Ireland, Phayre was driven from his farm during the Irish Uprising...

Officer of the Guard Alive Refused to sign the order to the executioners. Not tried, released in 1662. Died 1682.
Hugh Peters
Hugh Peters
Hugh Peters [or Peter] was an English preacher.-Early life:He was baptized on 29 June 1598 in Fowey, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge....

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 Escaped to Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. Died 1666.
Matthew Thomlinson
Matthew Thomlinson
Matthew Thomlinson was an English soldier who fought for Parliament in the English Civil War and regicide of Charles I.Thomlinson was the second son of John Thomlinson of York, England, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of Matthew Dodsworth. A colonel of horse in the New Model Army, he was one of...

Officer of the Guard Alive Pardoned for showing courtesy to the King and for testifying against Axtell and Hacker. Died 1681.

Others

  • John Lambert
    John Lambert (general)
    John Lambert was an English Parliamentary general and politician. He fought during the English Civil War and then in Oliver Cromwell's Scottish campaign , becoming thereafter active in civilian politics until his dismissal by Cromwell in 1657...

     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
    Guernsey
    Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...

     for the rest of his life.
  • Sir Henry Vane the Younger
    Henry Vane the Younger
    Sir Henry Vane , son of Henry Vane the Elder , was an English politician, statesman, and colonial governor...

     served on the Council of State during the Interregnum even though he refused to take the oath which expressed approbation (approval) of the King's execution. At the Restoration, after much debate in Parliament, he was exempted from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act. In 1662 he was tried for high treason, found guilty and beheaded on Tower Hill on 14 June 1662.


Shortly after the Restoration in Scotland
Restoration (Scotland)
The Restoration of the monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the government of occupation that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

 the Scottish Parliament passed an Act of indemnity and oblivion. It was similar to the English Indemnity and Oblivion Act
Indemnity and Oblivion Act
The Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660 is an Act of the Parliament of England , the long title of which is "An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion"....

, but there were many more exceptions under the Scottish act than there were under the English act. However most of the Scottish exceptions were pecuniary, only four men were executed (all for treason but none for regicide) of whom the Marquess of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, was the de facto head of government in Scotland during most of the conflict known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, also known as the British Civil War...

 was the most prominent. He was found to be guilty of collaboration with Cromwell's government, and beheaded on 27 May 1661.

Further reading

  • How many regicides?
  • Regicides Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  • Thomas Bayly Howell
    Thomas Bayly Howell
    Thomas Bayly Howell FRS was an English lawyer and writer who edited and lent his name to Howell's State Trials.-Life:Born, in Jamaica, his family returned to England in 1770 to settle at Prinknash Park near Gloucester...

    , Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett
    William Cobbett
    William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who was born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm labourers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly...

    , David Jardine
    David Jardine
    David Jardine was an English barrister and magistrate, known as a historical and legal writer.-Life:Born at Pickwick, near Bath, Somerset, he was son of David B. Jardine , Unitarian minister at Bath from 1790, by his wife, a daughter of George Webster of Hampstead...

    . A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783. Vol 5. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. "205. The Trials of Twenty-nine Regicides, at the Old Bailey, for High Treason, which began the 9th Day of October, A. D. 1660: 12 Charles II." p. 471–1364
  • Mark Noble
    Mark Noble (biographer)
    Mark Noble was an English clergyman, biographer and antiquary.-Life:He was born in Digbeth, Birmingham, the third surviving son of William Heatley Noble, a merchant there...

    (1798). The lives of the English regicides: and other commissioners of the pretended High court of justice, appointed to sit in judgment upon their sovereign, King Charles the First, Volume I, Volume II
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