biography
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| lived:
| (1606–60)
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| biography:
| English Parliamentarian soldier and regicide, born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, C England, UK. He fought for the parliamentary army in the Civil War (1642–5), commanded the guard which took Charles I from Hurst Castle to London, sat among his judges, and signed his death warrant (1649). He became a member of the Council of State (1651), but was too uncompromising in religion and politics to favour Cromwell's tolerant ideas, and was deprived of his commission, and later imprisoned for his share in plots hatched by the more irreconcilable bigots. After the Restoration he was arrested and executed. |
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