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regicides

The 49 signatories on the instrument of execution for Charles I of England in 1649, together with the 2 executioners (who were anonymous). After the Restoration in 1660, twentynine of these men were put on trial and 10 were sentenced to death.
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The Massachusetts Puritans did establish their own church, but they were religious and in many cases were actual blood descendants of the English regicides, and memories were strong.
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In 1642-1643 William Prynne had tirelessly urged the state oaths and lawful covenants that protected the ancient constitution against arbitrary, popish, and tyrannical government; by 1650 he saw the regicides as covert political allies of the Jesuits.
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By behaving, as Charles had, like martyrs, the regicides controverted their royalist executioners.
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