Robert Nicholas (1595–1667) was a judge and an English Member of Parliament who supported the
Parliamentary cause in the
English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of Kingdom of England, England's governanc ...
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Nicholas was elected
Member of Parliament
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(M.P.) for
Devizes for the
Long Parliament in November 1640.
He assisted in prosecuting
Archbishop Laud in 1643. In 1648 he became
Serjeant-at-law and in 1649 judge of the upper bench. He was
Baron of the Exchequer in 1655.
Nicholas was not exempted from the
general pardon at the
restoration of the monarchy
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in 1660. He was commissioner for raising money in Wiltshire in 1660.
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Roundheads
1595 births
1667 deaths
Serjeants-at-law (England)
People from Devizes
17th-century English judges
English MPs 1640–1648
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