Regicides
the men who were appointed on the Parliamentary committee to try King Charles I., but in a narrower sense the men, 67 in number, who actually sat in trial on him. Of these only 59 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 10 were executed, 19, together with six others who were not tried, being imprisoned, most of them for life. More than 20 who were already dead were tried and condemned, notwithstanding, 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 Assassi- NATION.