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 Letters on a Regicide Peace Letters on a Regicide Peace or Letters ... on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France were a series of four letters written by Edmund Burke during the 1790s in opposition to Prime Minister William Pitt's seeking of peace with the revolutionary French Directorate. It was completed and published in 1796. By January 1796, Burke was finishing his "Letter on a Regicide Peace", and parts of it were already printed. However, the work was delayed and it was published 20 October 1796, together with the second letter, as "Two Letters on a