He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant. |
When Charles II returned to become king of England in 1660, those men who had signed his father's death warrant were tried as regicides and executed. |
The tyrannicides in ancient Greece, the Assassins and the regicides in the Middle Ages were suicide terrorists. |
The regicides were evidently the calendared saints of his religion, and their adventures his Acta Sanctorum. |
Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses. |
Northumberland opposed both Charles's execution and the prosecution of the regicides. |