Andrew 'the Regicide' Broughton

Andrew Broughton, 'regicide,' was the younger son of Richard Broughton (of Seaton, Rutland, England) & (Anne?) Agard.

Biography

Andrew Broughton (1602/03–1687) was Clerk of the Court at the High Court of Justice for the trial King Charles I of England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Broughton

There are not many records of his early life. He was probably born in Seaton, Rutland as the younger son of Richard Broughton (d. 1635). By 1627 Broughton was living in Maidstone, Kent and in 1639 he was appointed clerk of the peace for the county of Kent by the Earl of Pembroke who was at that time Lord Chamberlain. He lost this position under the machinations surrounding the start of the English Civil War, specifically his involvement in the impeachment of Earl of Strafford and the imprisonment of Geoffrey Palmer for protesting against the Grand Remonstrance.[1]

Broughton was a member of the Kent county committee from 1643. He acted as attorney on behalf of the corporation of Maidstone during the First English Civil War. In November 1648 he was elected Mayor of the town. Two months later he was appointed Clerk of the Court at the High Court of Justice for the trial of King
Charles I, and at the end of the trial declared the court's sentence of death.[1]

During the English Interregnum he served as a member of the Barebones Parliament, on the Council of State between 14 July 1653 and November 1653, and in the Third Protectorate Parliament in which "Towards Richard himself he was positively insulting" (Woolrych, 222).[1]

At the Restoration Broughton, was exempted from the general pardon under the Indemnity and Oblivion Act,[2] and was likely to lose his life—The other clerk at the trial, John Phelps was also exempted but only for "penalties not extending to Life"—so Broughton and Phelps fled, reports in 1662 placed them in Hamburg, but later that year Broughton arrived in Lausanne in Switzerland where several other regicides were residing. In 1664 he travelled to Bern with Edmund Ludlow and Nicholas Love, to thank the senate of Bern for their offer of sanctuary. Broughton remained in exile for 25 years dying peacefully in Vevey, where he was buried in the church of St Martin.[1]

Children of Mary and Andrew Broughton:

1. (perhaps) Nathaniel Broughton, d. 1680
2. Anne Broughton, b. 1633; married 1) John Borodell 2) Thomas Andrews
3. Andrew Broughton Esq., b. 1637; married Anne Overton
4. Lydia Broughton; b. 1639
5. John Broughton; b. 1640
6. Robert Broughton; b. abt 1640; 2 sons
7. Thomas Broughton; b. abt 1640; Thomas Broughton had a royal license to do business as a merchant in Galway Town 1669.

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Research Notes

His ownership of land in Ireland has led descendants to mistakenly believe that he emigrated from England to Ireland as part of the 1649 Cromwellian Conquest.

Notes

7. John Borodell (JohnA, RobertB, NicholasC) was born circa 1628 (assuming he was about 14 when he apprenticed with Francis Allen of the Goldsmiths’ Company);[110] died between 2 September and 18 November 1667, when his will was dated and proved.[111]

He married, circa 1652, Anne Broughton, daughter of the regicide Andrew Broughton and his wife Mary _____.[112] She was baptized at Maidstone, Kent, 9 May 1633[113] and made her will 1 June 1710. It was proved on 9 September 1714.[114] She married, second, Benjamin Andrews, on 12 December 1676 at St. Dunstan in the East, London.[115]

Signatories of the Death Warrant

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References

1. 8/30/2024 NEHGR Vol 178. No. 3, page 241-259. Miscia, Travis Dodge. "The Cumbrian Origins and Puritan Connections of Ann (Borodell) Denison and Margaret (Borodell) (Shepard) Mitchell." < AmericanAncestors >. The author also lays to rest multiple myths about members of this Borodell family, while tracing them back to the immigrants’ great-grandfather.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Broughton
3. WikiTree contributors, "Andrew Broughton (abt.1602-1687)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Broughton-1783 : accessed 31 August 2024). cites
   1. Geoff Frowde, Major-General Robert Overton (1608-78) in The Rutland Record, 1997, number 17, page 300, http://www.rutlandhistory.org/rutlandrecord/rr17.pdf
   2. Wikipedia contributors, "Andrew Broughton," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrew_Broughton&oldid=9... (accessed December 7, 2020).
   3. Sean Kelsey, Broughton, Andrew (1602/3–1687) in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/74828
   4. Broughton, Andrew (1602/3–1687), lawyer and politician, was probably the son of Richard Broughton (d. 1635) of Seaton, Rutland, and his wife, whose maiden name was Agard.
   5. "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7LR-1FX : 20 March 2020), Andrew Broughton, 1637.
   6. Teresa Goatham, The will of John Bigg (1602-1643), http://teresa-goatham.me.uk/genealogy/wills-about/kent/becon/john-b...
   7. Calendar of the state papers relating to Ireland preserved in the Public Record Office 1625-1670, 1900, page 227, https://archive.org/details/cu31924091770895/page/n275/mode/2up
   8. The last will of John Bigg makes no disposal of his share in the Irish adventure and it does not appear that Bigg had issue living at the time of his decease. The will, dated 27 March, 1641, makes Andrew Broughton, gent., sole executor. Signed, and underwritten with note by Broughton, dated 16 Aug., 1653, certifying that Bigg had no issue living at the time of his decease and had no brother or sister who is now living.
   9. Sean Kelsey, Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649-1653, 1997, page 101, https://books.google.fr/books?id=6m1Vz6LCH8AC&pg=PA101
   10. John Patrick Prendergast, The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland, page 220, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ABA0106.0001.001/222
   11. Oliver Seymour Phelps, The Phelps family of America and their English ancestors, 1899, page 55, https://archive.org/details/phelpsfamilyofam01phel/page/n75/mode/2up
   12. Charles Harding Firth, The memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, lieutenant-general of the horse in the army of the commonwealth of England, 1625-1672, 1894, page xlvii, https://archive.org/details/memoirsofedmundl01ludl/page/n51/mode/2u...
4. https://www.thereformation.info/regicides/ These were the people who signed the Death Warrant of Charles I, of whom some forty one of the original fifty nine were still living in 1660. Fifteen of the survivors fled the country at this time with three – John Dixwell, Edmund Whalley and William Goffe, going to New England. Goffe was a resident in Hadley, Massachusetts. William Cawley, Edmund Ludlow, John Lisle and the two Clerks of the Court -John Phelps and Andrew Broughton, went to Switzerland. Lisle had the misfortune to be stabbed to death by an Irish loyalist when on his way to church in Lausanne. The other four went to live in Vevay where they lived out their lives. Ludlow tried to return in 1688 but as soon as he appeared an warrant was issued for his arrest, and he returned to Switzerland.
5. https://openplaques.org/plaques/7253 Andrew Broughton 1603-1688 Mayor & Regicide Lived Here. Broughton was Clerk of the Court at the High Court of Justice for the trial King Charles I of England. As Clerk of the Court, he read out the charge against the king and required him to plead. At the end of the trial he declared the court's sentence of death.
6. http://www.churchmonumentsgazetteer.co.uk/Historical_Groups/Regicid... The Signatories of the Death Warrant. Andrew Broughton was, with John Phelps, one of the clerks of the court at the trail of Charles I. He read out several times the formal demand for Charles I's answer the charge and finally the summary of the trial and sentence. He escaped to Switzerland at the Restoration and died in 1687 aged 84 and was buried at Vevey. His grave stone was discovered like that of Andrew Cawley.