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'' Dendy was the son of Edward Dendy,

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. Dendy inherited his fathers position and served as serjeant-at-arms in the

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and for the Rump. On 8 January 1649 Dendy as serjeant-at-arms for the

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proclaimed that the

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would take place in London, and was rewarded on 27 March the same year with the post of serjeant-at-arms for the

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. During the

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he served the new regime in various roles and it was he who proclaimed Cromwell as protector in London on 19 December 1653. In 1660, at the

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of the monarchy he was excluded from the general pardon granted under the Act of Oblivion and fled abroad. In 1661, he left Rotterdam before the English ambassador George Downing could arrange for an arrest warrant to be issued. He moved to Switzerland to be with other republican fugitives. He remained there, settling in

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where he died in 1674.

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References

*Timothy Venning, ‘Dendy, Edward (bap. 1613, d. 1674)’, ''

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