On 30 January 1649, Captain William Hewlett was the officer in charge of the soldiers at the

execution of Charles I The execution of Charles I by beheading occurred on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in E ...

.Hewlett Genealogy
sourced from a book by the Reverend William King (Vicar of Astley 1947–1973), titled "Bells and Pomegranates" After the Restoration, Captain Hewlett was convicted on 15 October 1660 for his part in 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'' ...

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 ...

on 30 January 1649, but was not executed along with the other men who were tried with him: Daniel Axtell and

Francis Hacker Colonel Francis Hacker (died 19 October 1660) was an English soldier who fought for Parliament during the English Civil War and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England. Biography Hacker was third son of Francis Hacker of East Bridgfo ...

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