John Bourchier

John Bourchier

Sir John Bourchier (c. 1595 - 1660) was an English parliamentarian, Puritan and one of the regicides of King Charles I.

In 1625, Bourchier was appointed as a Justice of the Peace for the three Yorkshire Ridings. When Charles dissolved Parliament and sought to raise money through the forced loans in 1627, Sir John was one of those who refused. At the outbreak of the English Civil War, he was arrested and imprisoned in York until 1643. He was elected Member of Parliament for Ripon in 1647; at Pride's Purge, he was one of the MPs permitted to keep his seat in Commons.

As a judge at the trial of King Charles, he was one of the signatories of the King's death warrant. After the Restoration, May 1660, Bourchier was too ill to be tried as a regicide, and died, unrepentant, in August 1660.

External links

* [http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/bourchier.htm Biography of Sir John Bourchier] British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website


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