John Hewson (regicide) General Monck and the restoration of the monarchy. When his endeavours came to nought, on the restoration of the monarchy he fled to Amsterdam, where he died in 1662. Richard Neville (later Lord Braybrooke) in a footnote from his 1825 edition of Samuel Pepys' diary: John Hewson (regicide) Colonel John Hewson (Hughson) (died 1662) was a soldier in the New Model Army and signed the death warrant of King Charles I, making him a regicide. Before the English Civil War Hewson was a cobbler and then a shoemaker. When John Lilburne was his apprentice in the 1630s, he introduced Lilburne
Francis Allen (regicide) Francis Allen (regicide) Francis Allen (ca. 1583 – 6 September 1658) was an English financier, politician and regicide who sided with parliament in the civil War against Charles I. By the mid-1630s he had become a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths where he became an activist against pressure for members to relocate their homes to Goldsmiths' Row, Cheapside. He was suspended and refused subsequent invitations to rejoin. Allen was elected to the Long Parliament for Cockermouth in April 1642 and assisted with the financial administration of the English Civil War. In January 1644 he was part of a