Thomas Chaloner (regicide) a general pardon and escaped to the Continent to avoid a trial for high treason. He died at Middelburg in the Netherlands in 1661. Thomas Chaloner (regicide) Thomas Chaloner (1595–1661) was an English politician, commissioner at the trial of Charles I and signatory to his death warrant. He was born at Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, and was the son of the courtier Sir Thomas Chaloner. In January 1649, he and his younger brother James Chaloner (1602–1660) served as two of the 135 commissioners of the court which tried King Charles I. Subsequently Thomas Chaloner signed the King's death warrant, while James
Henry Marten (regicide) rather the inaction of the House of Lords, he was spared the death penalty, but he remained a captive. Having escaped the death penalty for his involvement in the regicide Marten was sent into internal exile, first in the far north of England and then (1665) to Windsor Castle, where he remained until Charles II ordered him to be moved away from such close proximity to himself. In 1668 Marten was sent to Chepstow, in Wales. Marten's imprisonment there lasted some twelve years but does not appear to have been unduly arduous, at least at first; he had a suite