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
Regicide were disinterred and hanged, drawn and quartered in posthumous executions. In 1662, three more regicides John Okey, John Barkstead and Miles Corbet were also hanged, drawn and quartered. The officers of the court that tried Charles I, those who prosecuted him and those who signed his death warrant, have been known ever since the restoration as regicides. The Parliamentary Archives in the Palace of Westminster, London, holds the original death warrant of Charles I. Different cultures and authors in history have used different definitions for what constitute the crime of regicide, as such it is difficult to make a universally