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Although Royal authority in political and religious matters were key issues, the war was fought primarily over political power and religious authority. Charles was defeated in the 1642 to 1646 First English Civil War [1] In January 1649 a trial court was arranged, composed of 135 commissioners. Some were informed beforehand of their summons ...
Thomas Hammond (regicide) Sir James Harington, 3rd Baronet; Edmund Harvey; William Heveningham; William Hewlett (regicide) John Hewson (regicide) Cornelius Holland (regicide) Thomas Horton (soldier) Hercules Huncks; John Hutchinson (Roundhead)
and in that biography article is a link to the ODNB own regicide article which explains Nowhere in the act [of Oblivion] did the word ‘regicide’ appear, either to define the crime of killing the king or as a label for those responsible for it. The word itself was unrecognizable in law. Regicide was a sin, but it was not a crime.
In Western Christianity, regicide was far more common prior to 1200/1300. [1] Sverre Bagge counts 20 cases of regicide between 1200 and 1800, which means that 6% of monarchs were killed by their subjects. [1] He counts 94 cases of regicide between 600 and 1200, which means that 21.8% of monarchs were killed by their subjects. [1]
William Goffe, c. 1613/1618 - 1679/1680, was a religious radical from London who fought for Parliament during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.Nicknamed “Praying William” by contemporaries, he approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649, but escaped prosecution as a regicide by fleeing to the New England Colonies.
Charles divided his jewels among the children, leaving him with only his George [15] (an enameled figure of St. George, worn as a part of the ceremonial dress of the Order of the Garter). [16] Charles spent his last night restless, going to sleep only at 2 a.m. [17] Charles awoke early on the day of his execution.
John Cook or Cooke (baptised 18 September 1608 [1] – 16 October 1660) [2] [3] was the first Solicitor General of the English Commonwealth and led the prosecution of Charles I. Following The Restoration, Cook was convicted of regicide and hanged, drawn and quartered on 16 October 1660. [4]
John Fry, son of William Fry of Iwerne Minster, was born in 1609.He was Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury in the Long and Rump Parliaments, sat through most of the trial of King Charles I, but did not take part in the sentencing, having been suspended from membership of the House of Commons and debarred from sitting on the High Court for heterodoxy on 26 January 1649, one day before the ...