When Charles II was restored to the throne the House of Commons voted on 4th December 1660 that the coffins of regicides Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw should be dug up from the Abbey ...

John Bradshaw, lawyer, politician and regicide, was born at Wibersley in Cheshire in 1602, a son of Henry Bradshaw (d.1654) and his wife Catherine (Winnington). His elder brother was Henry (d.1662), ...