Regicides

Regicides, the men who were appointed on the parliamentary committee to try King Charles I., but in a narrower sense the men, sixty-seven in number, who actually sat in trial upon him. Of these only fifty-nine signed the death-warrant. After the Restoration the regicides were brought to trial on a charge of high-treason. Twenty-nine were condemned to death, but only ten were executed, nineteen, together with six others who were not tried, being imprisoned, most of them for life. More than twenty who were already dead were tried and condemned all the same, and Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw, three of them, were exhumed and hanged at Tyburn, and then reburied at the foot of the scaffold. For regicides in a wider use of the term, see ASSASSINATION, and E. Régis' Les Régicides dans l'Histoire et dans le Présent (1890).