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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)
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]
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
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.
Colonel Robert Phaire, (1619?–1682), was an officer in the Irish Protestant and then the New Model armies and one of the regicide of Charles I of England.He was one of the three officers to whom the warrant for the execution of Charles I was addressed, but he escaped severe punishment at the Restoration by having married the daughter of Sir Thomas Herbert (1606–1682).
On being found guilty of regicide, John Downes was condemned to death in October 1660, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment because he had tried to intervene on the King's behalf and only signed the death warrant after being intimidated by the other commissioners. [1] Downes spent the rest of his life a prisoner in the Tower of ...
John Carew (3 July 1622 - 15 October 1660) was a member of the landed gentry from Antony, Cornwall and MP for Tregony from 1647 to 1653. A prominent supporter of the Fifth Monarchists, a millenarianist religious sect, he backed Parliament and the Commonwealth in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649.