Charles I's Executioners: Civil War, Regicide and the Republic

Charles I's Executioners: Civil War, Regicide and the Republic

by James Hobson
Charles I's Executioners: Civil War, Regicide and the Republic

Charles I's Executioners: Civil War, Regicide and the Republic

by James Hobson

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Overview

On an icy winter’s day in January 1649, a unique event in English history took place on a scaffold outside of Whitehall: Charles I, King of England, was executed. The king had been held to account and the Divine Right of Kings disregarded. Regicide, a once-unfathomable act, formed the basis of the Commonwealth’s new dawn.

The killers of the king were soldiers, lawyers, Puritans, Republicans and some simply opportunists, all brought together under one infamous banner. While the events surrounding Charles I and Cromwell are well-trodden, the lives of the other fifty-eight men – their backgrounds, ideals and motives – has been sorely neglected.

Their stories are a powerful tale of revenge and a clash of beliefs; their fates determined by that one decision. When Charles II was restored he enacted a deadly wave of retribution against the men who had secured his father’s fate. Some of the regicides pleaded for mercy, many went into hiding or fled abroad; others stoically awaited their sentence. This is their shocking story: the ideals that united them, and the decision that unmade them.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526761842
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication date: 12/11/2020
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Hobson has taught and written about History as teacher for twenty-five years. His first book was The Dark Days of Georgian Britain, a social history of the Regency period. His other interest is the English Civil War – studying this as his specialism under Professor John Morrill while at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 The Morning Stars of the Regicide John Alured John Moore John Blakiston James Temple Peregrine Pelham 1

Chapter 2 The Main Regicide Henry Ireton 15

Chapter 3 The Gentry Soldiers Oliver Cromwell Richard Deane John Okey 27

Chapter 4 The Brewer, the Servant and the Cobbler? Thomas Pride Isaac Ewer John Hewson 39

Chapter 5 The Metropolitan Militia Men John Barkstead Robert Tichborne Owen Rowe John Venn 52

Chapter 6 Turning Point, 1648 Thomas Waite Thomas Norton Thomas Wogan 66

Chapter 7 The Main Lawyer John Bradshaw 73

Chapter 8 Two Regicide Lawyers William Say Augustine Garland 79

Chapter 9 The Main Republican Henry Marten 85

Chapter 10 The Regicide Republicans Thomas Chaloner Thomas Scot Valentine Walton 90

Chapter 11 Two Well Documented Men? Edmund Ludlow John Hutchinson 99

Chapter 12 The Main Fanatic Thomas Harrison 113

Chapter 13 Three Fanatics John Carew John Jones Thomas Grey 121

Chapter 14 The Main Cromwellians Edward Whalley William Goffe 130

Chapter 15 The Cromwellians Robert Lilburne William Constable John Dixwell Anthony Stapley 136

Chapter 16 The Committee Men William Purefoy Vincent Potter Miles Corbet 148

Chapter 17 Unprincipled, Choleric, Malcontents? Thomas Mauleverer John Bouchier 158

Chapter 18 Mostly About the Money? Humphrey Edwards Gregory Norton John Downes Daniel Blagrave William Cawley 163

Chapter 19 Adulterers and Cowards Gilbert Millington Michael Livesey Peter Temple Gregory Clement 171

Chapter 20 Suspect Motivations John Danvers Simon Mayne 178

Chapter 21 The Strained Quality of Mercy Richard Ingoldsby Adrian Scrope 182

Chapter 22 Reluctant to Kill, or Just Reluctant to Die? Hardress Waller Henry Smith George Fleetwood 190

Conclusion 197

Bibliography 199

Notes 202

Index 207

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