Chapter 19

That a considerable portion of the community regarded the execution of the regicides as a crime, and those who suffered as martyrs, would appear from the pains taken to vilify their memory when dead, and attempts made to justify their execution. The authorities for the life of Hugh Peters are mainly: _Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow_, 1771; B. Whitelocke's _Memorials of English Affairs_, 1732; Rushworth's _Collections_, 1692; Bishop Burnet's _History of His Own Time_, 1724; John Thurloe's _Collection of State Papers_, 174…