Matthew Thomlinson
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Matthew Thomlinson was a soldier and regicide, 1617-81.
He enlisted in the lifeguard of the Earl of Essex in 1642 and worked his way up the ranks to become a colonel in the New Model Army in 1647. Thomlinson was appointed to the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I, but he declined to sit. However, he commanded the escort that brought the King from Windsor to Westminster on the way to his trial, and attended the King on the scaffold. Arrested at the Restoration, Thomlinson was pardoned because he had treated the King with courtesy and because he gave evidence against Daniel Axtell and Francis Hacker.
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