John Alured (1607–1651) was an army officer who fought for the parliamentary cause in the
English Civil War and was one of the
regicides of King
Charles I in 1649.[1][2]
He was born in
Kingston upon Hull. He inherited the family estate in 1628 and married Mary Darley (second cousin) in 1631.[1]
Alured was the
MP for
Hedon in both the
Short and
Long Parliaments. He spent most of the First Civil War as a colonel in Lord Fairfax's northern parliamentarian army, and is known to have fought at
Adwalton Moor in 1643 and possibly at
Marston Moor in 1644. He was a member of
Philip Nye's Hull congregation.[3] In February 1645 he took up a new command in the
New Model Army. In 1649, appointed to the
High Court of Justice at the
trial of King Charles, he was one of the signatories of the King's death warrant.[1]
At the
restoration of the monarchy in 1660, because of his act of regicide he was, although by then dead, a named exception in the general pardon (
Act of Oblivion, section XXXVIII), which meant that any property that was held by the beneficiaries of his estate could be confiscated.[4]
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