Nicholas Love (1608–1682) was an English lawyer and one of the

Regicide Regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch or sovereign of a polity and is often associated with the usurpation of power. A regicide can also be the person responsible for the killing. The word comes from the Latin roots of ''regis'' ...

s of King

Charles I of England Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until Execution of Charles I, his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of ...

. Love was educated at

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and

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; M.A., 1636; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1636. His father, also Nicholas Love (d. 10 Sept 1630) was the warden of Winchester college from 1613. He was elected M.P. for

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in 1645. Love was one of the judges at the

trial of Charles I Charles I may refer to: Kings and emperors * Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings * Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily * Charles I of ...

, but did not sign the death warrant. He retained his seat as M.P. for Winchester, in the

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of 1659. At the

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of the monarchy in 1660 he escaped to Switzerland. He died at

Vevey Vevey (; frp, Vevê; german: label=former German, Vivis) is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used. It was the seat of the district of ...

in 1682. Lee, Sidney (1903),

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(also main entry xxxiv 159)

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;Attribution 1608 births 1682 deaths Regicides of Charles I English lawyers English MPs 1640–1648 English MPs 1648–1653 English expatriates in Switzerland People educated at Winchester College {{17thC-England-MP-stub