RegicideAn illuminating biography of a republican convicted of regicide, drawing on the letters he wrote from within the Tower of London. Henry Martensoldier, member of parliament, organizer of the trial of Charles I, and signatory of the Kings death warrantis today a neglected figure of the seventeenth century. Yet his life was both extraordinary and emblematic: he was at the fulcrum of English history during the turbulent years of the civil war, the