Peter Temple (regicide) Peter Temple (regicide) Peter Temple (ca. 1599–1663) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1645 and 1653. He was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England. Temple of Temple Hall was a member of the county association for defence in 1642. He was a captain of horse and accused of cowardice in fleeing Leicester to London when the Royalist army approached Leicester in 1645. He was however pardoned and elected Member of Parliament for Leicester later in 1645 for the Long Parliament as replacement for a Royalist and remained in the Rump
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