Henry Smith (regicide) Restoration in 1660 he was brought to trial for regicide and was sentenced to death. He successfully appealed the sentence which was then commuted to life imprisonment. He was held at the Tower of London until 1664, and was then transported to Jersey where he is thought to have died in 1668 in Mont Orgueil castle. Henry Smith (regicide) Henry Smith (1620–1668) was an English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I. He was born in Withcote, Leicestershire in 1620; son of Henry Smith born in 1589 and Frideswide (Fritzjoyce) Wright. He studied at Oxford
Thomas Lister (regicide) judge in the trial of Charles I, but only attended a few sessions of the court and did not sign the death warrant. In February 1651, he was appointed a member of the council of state. He was MP for the county of Lincolnshire in the Protectorate Parliaments but he once again represented the city in 1659 with the recall of the Rump Parliament. At the restoration, he was excluded from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, because of his role in the trial and execution of Charles I and was tried for regicide. He knelt at the bar of the