John Fry (regicide)
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John Fry was a Member of the English Parliament and sat as a Commissioner (Judge) during the trial of King Charles I of England.
Fry who, was Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury in the Long and Rump Parliaments, sat through most of the trial of King Charles I, but was banned on 26 January because he was suspended from membership of the House of Commons and debarred from sitting on the High Court for heterodoxy. The suspicion (probably justified) was that he did not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity.[1]
At the restoration he was still alive and was excluded from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act.[2]
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- ^ House of Lords Record Office The Death Warrant of King Charles I
- ^ Indemnity and Oblivion Act
- House of Commons Journal Volume 8: Proceding against the regicides 9 June 1660: Also lists the days he sat in judment on the King in January 1649.
- House of Commons Journal Volume 8: Pains and Penalties against Regicides 1 July 1661
