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"No kings" goes back a long, long way in New England. [1]
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Date: 2025-06-15
This sign is posted on the side of Route 9 in Hadley, MA.
The ‘regicides’ were fifty-nine Parliamentarian (mostly Puritan) commanders or politicians from the English Civil War who voted for the conviction (on charges of treason) and execution of King Charles I.
The salient thing in the indictment was that the King had levied war against Parliament and the realm, and the King had pursued his personal aims rather than the good of the realm, which in the view of the Rump Parliament added up to treason.
Charles’ defense was that he ruled by divine right and could not be tried by Parliament, and walloped the prosecutor with his walking stick so hard that the stick broke. The court took that as a guilty plea.
After the Restoration of the Stuart monarch in 1660, the remaining regicides were executed, imprisoned, or fled to Europe or remote colonies with a lot of remaining Puritan support.
Whalley and Goffe were never captured, but died on what was then a remote frontier.
A third regicide, John Dixwell, remained in hiding in Connecticut, where many things are named after him.
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