Bradshaw
JOHN, an English Puritan, who was President of the High Court of Justice which tried and condemned King Charles I., born in Cheshire, in 1586. In 1649, he was Chief Justice of Chester, and when the trial of the King was determined upon, Bradshaw was chosen to preside. His deportment on the trial was lofty and unbending, and everything was done to give weight and dignity to this unexampled tribunal. On Cromwell's accession to the protectorate, he was deprived of his judgeship, but, on the restoration of the Long Parliament, was elected President of the Council of State. Bradshaw died in 1659, and on his death bed asserted that, if the King were to be tried and condemned again, he would be the first to agree to it.
Bradshaw was magnificently buried in Westminster Abbey, whence, after the Restoration, his body was ejected as being that of a regicide, and hanged on a gibbet at Tyburn, with those of Cromwell and Ireton.