Thomas Chaloner (regicide) Thomas Chaloner (regicide) Thomas Chaloner (1595–1661) was an English politician, commissioner at the trial of Charles I and signatory to his death warrant. He was born at Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, and was the son of the courtier Sir Thomas Chaloner. In January 1649, he and his younger brother James Chaloner (1602–1660) served as two of the 135 commissioners of the court which tried King Charles I. Subsequently Thomas Chaloner signed the King's death warrant, while James did not. In 1660, at the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, Chaloner was excluded from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act which gave
Thomas Lister (regicide) Thomas Lister (regicide) Thomas Lister (1597–1668) was colonel in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War and an MP. He was appointed a judge at the trial of Charles I, but on the restoration escaped with a light punishment. Lister was born in 1597, the eldest son of William and Griselle Lister (née Rivett). He grew up at the family home, Coleby Hall in Lincolnshire and was admitted to Gray's Inn 1616. In 1622, he married Margaret Armine. On the outbreak of the English Civil War, Lister was arrested by a party of 60 royalist troopers led by the