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List of regicides of Charles I


The following list of 59 Commissioners1 all signed their names to the death warrant of King Charles I, and in the order given:

Contents

Commissioners

  1. John Bradshaw President of the Court. Restoration-dead-Hanged Drawn and Quartered (HDQ)
  2. Lord Grey of Groby. Restoration-dead
  3. Oliver Cromwell. Restoration-dead-HDQ
  4. Edward Whalley. Restoration-alive-exiled himself in America to avoid trial.
  5. Sir Michael Livesey
  6. John Okey
  7. Sir John Danvers. Restoration-dead
  8. Sir John Bourchier
  9. Henry Ireton. Restoration-dead-HDQ
  10. Sir Thomas Mauleverer
  11. Sir Hardress Waller. Restoration-alive-fled to France, returned, tried found guilty, life imprisonment
  12. John Blakiston
  13. John Hutchinson
  14. William Goffe. Restoration-alive-exiled himself in America to avoid trial.
  15. Thomas Pride. Restoration-dead-ordered HDQ but sentence not carried out.
  16. Peter Temple
  17. Thomas Harrison. Restoration-alive-First to be found guilty and HDQ. He was a leader of the Fifth Monarchists who still posed a threat to the restoration.
  18. John Hewson. Restoration-alive-exiled himself to Amsterdam to avoid trial.
  19. Henry Smith
  20. Sir Peregrine Pelham
  21. Richard Deane. Restoration-dead-disinterred
  22. Robert Tichborne
  23. Humphrey Edwards
  24. Daniel Blagrave. Restoration-alive-exiled himself to Aachen, in what is now Germany
  25. Owen Rowe
  26. William Purefoy
  27. Adrian Scroope. Restoration-alive-HDQ
  28. James Temple
  29. Augustine Garland
  30. Edmund Ludlow. Restoration-alive-surrendered to the Speaker of the House, then escaped to the Canton of Bern.
  31. Henry Marten. Restoration-alive-tried found guilty of regicide, life imprisonment in Chepstow Castle.
  32. Vincent Potter
  33. Sir William Constable
  34. Richard Ingoldsby
  35. William Cawley
  36. John Barkstead
  37. Isaac Ewer
  38. John Dixwell. Restoration-alive, believed dead in England-exiled himself in America.
  39. Valentine Walton
  40. Simon Mayne
  41. Thomas Horton. Restoration-dead-family estates confiscated
  42. John Jones
  43. John Moore
  44. Gilbert Millington
  45. George Fleetwood
  46. John Alured
  47. Robert Lilburne
  48. William Say
  49. Anthony Stapley
  50. Sir Gregory Norton
  51. Thomas Challoner
  52. Thomas Wogan
  53. John Venn
  54. Gregory Clement
  55. John Downes. Restoration-alive-tried found guilty of regicide, life imprisonment
  56. Thomas Waite
  57. Thomas Scot
  58. John Carew (a Fifth Monarchist)
  59. Miles Corbet. Restoration-alive-extradited from the Netherlands and hanged


Associates

  • Daniel Axtel
  • Francis Hacker
  • William Hevingham
  • Hercules Hunck
  • John Lisle
  • Nicholas Love
  • Sir Henry Mildmay
  • Lord William Mounson
  • Isaac Pennington
  • Hugh Peters . Restoration-alive-HDQ
  • Robert Phayre
  • Matthew Thomlinson
  • Robert Wallop

Prosecuting lawyers

There were four lawyers chosen to prosecute the King:

  • John Cook (regicide) the Solicitor-General. Restoration-alive-HDQ
    • assisted by Dr Isaac Dorislaus distinguished scholar from the Netherlands. Restoration-dead.
  • Andrew Broughton , clerk
  • John Phelps , clerk


Notes

  1. 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. 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. [1]


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