Thomas Waite (regicide) Thomas Waite (regicide) Thomas Waite, (died 1688 in Jersey) also known as Thomas Wayte was an English soldier who fought for Parliament in the English Civil War, a Member of Parliament for Rutland, and one of the regicides of King Charles I. Waite was probably the son of Henry Waite of Wymondham, Leicestershire; but some royalist sources said he was the son of an alehouse keeper in Market Overton in Rutland. He was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1634. He was Sheriff of Rutland in 1641. Going into the Parliament army, he made such good use of his time, that
Edward Dendy (regicide) he who proclaimed Cromwell as protector in London on 19 December 1653. In 1660, at the restoration of the monarchy he was excluded from the general pardon granted under the Act of Oblivion and fled abroad. In 1661, he left Rotterdam before the English ambassador George Downing could arrange for an arrest warrant to be issued. He moved to Switzerland to be with other republican fugitives. He remained there, settling in Lausanne where he died in 1674. Edward Dendy (regicide) Edward Dendy (bap. 1613–1674) was a regicide who helped to facilitate the trial of Charles I. Dendy was the son