John Downes (regicide) 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. Downes spent the rest of his life a prisoner in the Tower of London. John Downes (regicide) Colonel John Downes (1609 – c. 1666) was a commissioner who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England. After the English Restoration he was found guilty of regicide and was imprisoned until he died. John Downes;
Edward Dendy (regicide) Edward Dendy (regicide) Edward Dendy (bap. 1613–1674) was a regicide who helped to facilitate the trial of Charles I. Dendy was the son of Edward Dendy, serjeant-at-arms. Dendy inherited his fathers position and served as serjeant-at-arms in the Long Parliament and for the Rump. On 8 January 1649 Dendy as serjeant-at-arms for the Rump Parliament proclaimed that the trial of Charles I would take place in London, and was rewarded on 27 March the same year with the post of serjeant-at-arms for the Council of State. During the Interregnum he served the new regime in various roles and it was