Edmund Harvey

Edmund Harvey, [Edmond Harvey in contemporary Parliamentary records e.g. Journal of the House of Lords: volume 11: 1660-1666, pp. 51-53, [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=13968#s13 Proclamation for apprehending the late King's Judges (4 June 1660)] British History Online, Date accessed: 11 February 2008.] (c.1601–1673) was an English soldier and member of Parliament during the English Civil War, who sat as a commissioner at the Trial of King Charles I and helped to draw up the he final charge. Although present on 27 January 1649 when the death warrant was signed he did not add his signature.

When the pro-Royalist Presbyterian mobs seized Westminster in the summer of 1647, he did not join the pro-Army Independents in fleeing to asylum with the army. He was one of the very few who actually changed sides and supported the army against the king at Pride's Purge, as most Presbyterians opposed this action as well as the trial of the king.

At the Restoration he was not given amnesty under the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion and was tried as a Regicide. In 1661 he was found guilty, but instead of a capital punishment his assets were seized and he was imprisoned in Pendennis Castle in Cornwall. He died there in June 1673 and was buried in Falmouth parish churchyard. [by H.C.G. Matthew (Editor), Brian Harrison (Editor) (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ISBN 0-19-861412-8. Ivan Roots and S. M. Wynne. "Harvey, Edmund" cites
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* K. Roberts, ‘Citizen soldiers: the military power of the city of London’, London and the civil war, ed. S. Porter (1996)
* F. T. K., ‘Harvey, Edmund’, HoP, Commons, 1640–60 [draft] ]

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