John Bourchier (regicide) those who refused. At the outbreak of the English Civil War, he was arrested and imprisoned in York until 1643. He was elected Member of Parliament for Ripon in 1647; at Pride's Purge, he was one of the MPs permitted to keep his seat in Commons. As a judge at the trial of King Charles, he was one of the signatories of the King's death warrant. After the Restoration, May 1660, Bourchier was too ill to be tried as a regicide, and died, unrepentant, a few months later. "During these contests between the two Houses, touching the exceptions to be
Letters on a Regicide Peace of the country for the continuance of the war". The fourth letter, addressed to William Fitzwilliam, was written following Burke's reading of William Eden's "Some Remarks on the Apparent Circumstances of the War in the Fourth Week of October 1795". When Pitt's government tried to negotiate peace with France, Burke stopped composing the letter and instead published what became the first two letters, called "Two Letters on a Regicide Peace". Burke attempted to rewrite the letter to Fitzwilliam, but he did not finish before dying. The 1812 edition of his works did include a copy of the fourth letter that