{"id":1439,"date":"2010-10-17T00:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2010-09-17T18:35:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:35:34","slug":"17th-october-1660-350-years-today-10-regicides-hanged-drawn-quartered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/17th-october-1660-350-years-today-10-regicides-hanged-drawn-quartered\/","title":{"rendered":"17th October 1660 (350 years ago today) The 10 Regicides are hanged, drawn and quartered."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special court was appointed and in October 1660 those Regicides who were still alive and living in Britain were brought to trial. Ten were found guilty and were sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered. This included Thomas Harrison, John Jones, John Carew and Hugh Peters. Others executed included Adrian Scroope, Thomas Scot, Gregory Clement, Francis Hacker, Daniel Axtel and John Cook.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, Thomas Pride and John Bradshaw were all posthumously tried for high treason. They were found guilty and in January 1661 their corpses were exhumed and hung in chains at Tyburn&#8230;.[from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk\/STUregicides.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spartacus<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special court was appointed and in October 1660 those Regicides who were still alive and living in Britain were brought to trial. Ten were found guilty and were sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered. This included Thomas Harrison, John Jones, John Carew and Hugh Peters. 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