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 622 APPENDIX G LISLE [4] John Lisle,(') Regicide, of Moyles Court, Ellingham, Southants, s. and h. of Sir William L., of Wootton,('') Isle of Wight, by Bridget, da. of Sir John Hungerford, of Down Ampney, co. Gloucester; b. 1609; matric. at Oxford (Magd. Hall) 25 Jan. 1625/6; admitted Middle Temple Ti May 1626; called to the Bar 1633; Bencher 9 Feb. 1648/9; Gov. of Westminster school 26 Sep. 1649. M.P. for Winchester 10 Mar. 1639/40; again, in the Long Pari., 27 Oct. 1640, and for Southampton 12 July 1654. He was a violent anti-royalist, an active promoter of the King's trial, and drafted the sentence. He was present in Westminster Hall, 2 7 Jan. 1 648/9, when the sentence was pronounced, though he did not sign the death-warrant. Councillor of State 14 Feb. 1648/9, 13 Feb. 1649/50, 13 Feb. 1650/1, and 24 Nov. 1652; member of the Lord Protector's Council, with a salary of £1,000 per ann., 16 Dec. 1653; Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal, with a further ^T 1,000 per ann., 8 Feb. 1648/9, 15 June 1655, and 22 Jan. 1658/9; and a member of the High Court of Justice,('') in which Sir Henry Slingsby and other royalists were condemned, 21 Nov. 1653; President thereof June 1654. He was sum. to the " Other House," 10 Dec. 1657, and took his seat, as "John Lord Lisle," 20 Jan. 1657/8; he also sat in Richard Cromwell's House of Lords, and signed the proclamation in which he was declared Protector, 3 Sep. 1658. He was app. Commis- sioner of the Navy 28 Jan. 1659/60. At the Restoration he was absolutely excepted from the Act of Indemnity, 29 Aug. 1660, and attainted, but fled to Switzerland, where he was assassinated by Thomas MacDonnell, 1 1 Aug. 1664. He m., 27 Oct. 1636, at Ellingham afsd., Alice, ist da. and coh. of Sir White Beaconshaw, of Moyles Court afsd., by Edith, ist da. and coh. of William Bond, of Blackmanston, Dorset. His widow was tried on a charge of High Treason, sentenced to death by Judge JefFreys,(^) 28 Aug., and beheaded 2 Sep. 1685, in the market-place at Winchester, aged 70. C) He bore for arms: Gold a chief Azure with three lions Gold thereon. (Victoria County History, Hants, vol. v, p. 205). The ancient coat was: " Ermine a chief Azure with three lyonseuse of Silver. Sir John Lyle. Hampchyre." [The Ancestor, vol. iv, p. 248). (*>) The manor of Wootton was held of the Honour of Carisbrooke, and had been in the possession of the Lisle family since the thirteenth century. ("=) As President of this Court he is said to have been " the most unpopular character in the kingdom." Campbell states that Lisle was " noted for his idleness and profligacy, and never had any practice or knowledge of the law. ... He was bold, bustling, confident, and unscrupulous." if) " It appears by the public prints, the Jury were so unsatisfied by the evidence that they thrice brought her in Not Guilty, at last upon Jefferies's threats they brought her in Guilty." (Coke's Detection, vol. ii, p. 339). See Howell's State Trials, vol. xi, p. 297, for a full account of the trial. The attainder was reversed in 1689, on the ground that " the verdict was injuriously extorted and procured by the menaces and violences and other illegal practices " of Jeffreys.