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Gregory Clement^[1]

Gregory Clement (1594–1660) was an English Member of Parliament (MP) and one of the regicides of King Charles I. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a Monarch, or the person responsible for it Charles I, (19 November 1600 &ndash 30 January 1649 was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution.

Clement was the son of John Clement, a merchant and one time Mayor of Plymouth. Plymouth ( is a city and unitary authority area on the coast of Devon, England about south west of London. After working in India for the British East India Company, Clement returned to London and on outbreak of the Civil War supported Parliament. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country The Honourable East India Company ( HEIC) referred to most commonly as the East India Company, also historically and colloquially as John Company, or London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The English Civil War (1642-1651 was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories

In 1648 , he became an MP for Fowey in Cornwall. Fowey was a Rotten borough in Cornwall which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in the English and later Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar In January 1649 , as a commissioner of the High Court of Justice at the trial of King Charles, he was 54th of the 59 signatories on the death warrant of the King — although interestingly his signature appears to have been written over an erased signature. For the Cameroonian court by this name see High Court of Justice (Cameroon, for the Israeli court of this name see Supreme Court of Israel. Charles I, (19 November 1600 &ndash 30 January 1649 was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution. Regicides of Charles I are considered to be the fifty-nine Commissioners (Judges who sat in judgement at the trial of King Charles I of England and signed his death

He was dismissed from the House of Commons in 1652 over a scandal involving his maidservant. The House of Commons' is the Lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords This may have been engineered by Thomas Harrison and other political opponents. Thomas Harrison (1606&ndash October 13, 1660) was a Puritan soldier and later a leader of the Fifth Monarchists.

Like all of the other 59 men who signed the death warrant for Charles I, Clement was in grave danger when Charles II of England was restored to the throne. Charles II (Charles Stuart 29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685 was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Some of the 59 fled England but Clement was arrested, put on trial, and found guilty of high treason. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on 17 October 1660. To be hanged drawn and quartered was the penalty once ordained in England for the crime of High treason. Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall and Cockspur Street in Central London, England. Events 539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost

According to Mark Twain's autobiography, an irate Virginian correspondent called him a descendant of a regicide (apparently referring to Gregory Clement) and berated him for supporting the–as he called it–aristocratic Republican Party. by Harper & Brothers Publishers Mark Twain’s Autobiography is a two-volume set published over ten years after Twain's death in order to protect the "guilty" ^[2]

References

Gregory Clement British Civil Wars & Commonwealth website
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, s. v. Clements, Gregory
Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain's Autobiography, Part One, Kessinger Publishing 2003, ISBN 0766161366
James Caulfield, The High Court of Justice: Comprising Memoirs of the Principal Persons, who sat in Judgment on King Charles the First and Signed his Death Warrant, John Caulfield, London 1820

^ Caulfield, op. cit. , no page number
^ Twain, op. cit. , p. 123

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