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On being found guilty of regicide, John Downes was condemned to death in October 1660, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment because he had tried to intervene on the King's behalf and only signed the death warrant after being intimidated by the other commissioners. [1] Downes spent the rest of his life a prisoner in the Tower of ...
John Downes: Alive Tried, found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Died 1666. [75] 56 Thomas Waite: Alive Tried, found guilty of regicide, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Died 1688 Jersey [76] 57 Thomas Scot: Alive Fled to Brussels, returned to England, was tried, found guilty; and hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on 17 ...
Thomas Hammond (regicide) Sir James Harington, 3rd Baronet; Edmund Harvey; William Heveningham; William Hewlett (regicide) John Hewson (regicide) Cornelius Holland (regicide) Thomas Horton (soldier) Hercules Huncks; John Hutchinson (Roundhead)
John Downes may refer to: John Downes (regicide) (1609–c. 1666), English commissioner convicted of regicide of Charles I of England at the restoration of Charles II John Downes (prompter) (died c. 1712), English theatre prompter for most of the Restoration period, 1660–1700
John Downes, regicide and friend of Cromwell. Though he signed the death warrant he escaped execution as he tried to save the King. He was imprisoned from 1660 until his death in 1666. Henry Oldenburg, first Secretary to the Royal Society, was imprisoned for one month in 1663 on suspicion of espionage. He had been corresponding with scientists ...
928, Pope John X of the Papal States, killed by Guy of Tuscany either by smothering him with a pillow or by poor prison conditions; 935 Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia killed by his younger brother Boleslaus the Cruel; 964 Pope John XII of the Papal States, allegedly murdered by a man whose wife he had committed adultery with.
John Downes was the prompter of the Duke's Company from 1662 to 1706. ... He did this by selling 7 7/10ths of his shares to people at a price range of £600 – £800
The Rump Parliament was the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride had commanded his soldiers, on 6 December 1648, to purge the Long Parliament of members against the Grandees' intention to try King Charles I for high treason.