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disguise and begins his journey to the Scottish army camp near Newark.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360055090#April&ndash;June", "title": "1646", "revid": 1360055090, "section": "Events › April&ndash;June"}}, {"year": 1646, "year_label": "1646 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 5", "text": "5 May – King Charles I surrenders his forces to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360055229#Events", "title": "1646 in England", "revid": 1360055229, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1646, "year_label": "1646 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 30", "text": "July 30 – Commissioners of the Parliament of England and Scottish Covenanters meeting in Newcastle upon Tyne set out the Heads of Proposals (\"Newcastle Propositions\") demanding that King Charles I gives up control of the army and place restrictions on Catholics, as the basis for a constitutional 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The first to die is Thomas Harrison, a leader of the Fifth Monarchists. He is followed by John Carew (October 15); John Cook and Hugh Peter (October 16); (Adrian Scrope, John Moore, Gregory Clement and Thomas Scot) (October 17); and Daniel Axtell and Francis Hacker (October 19).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986539#October&ndash;December", "title": "1660", "revid": 1365986539, "section": "Events › October&ndash;December"}}, {"year": 1662, "year_label": "1662 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 – Three of the former members of the English Parliament who had signed the death warrant for Charles I of England in 1649 and then fled into exile in the Netherlands after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 — Miles Corbet, John Okey and John Barkstead — are hanged after having been extradited, returned to England, and convicted of regicide. Their bodies are then drawn and quartered.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988036#April&ndash;June", "title": "1662", "revid": 1365988036, "section": "Events › April&ndash;June"}}, {"year": 1664, "year_label": "1664 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 11", "text": "August 11 – Sir John Lisle, a former member of the English House of Commons who had been designated a regicide for his role in signing the death warrant in the execution in 1649 of Charles I of England, is assassinated in a church courtyard in Lausanne in Switzerland. Lisle had gone into exile after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. The shooting of Lisle, done on order of King Charles II, is carried out by a team led by royal agent James Cotter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372648278#July&ndash;September", "title": "1664", "revid": 1372648278, "section": "Events › July&ndash;September"}}, {"year": 1672, "year_label": "1672 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March", "text": "March – Archibald Armstrong, court jester to James VI and I and Charles I of England", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992116#Deaths", "title": "1672", "revid": 1365992116, "section": "Deaths"}}]}