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See also: English regicide, was the elder son of See also: Sir See also: Henry Marten, and was educated at University
See also: College, See also: Oxford
.
As a public See also: man he first became prominent in 1639 when he refused to contribute to a general loan, and in 164o he entered parliament as one of the members for
Marsupial Mole (Notoryctes
typhlops)
.
See also: Berkshire
.
In the See also: House of See also: Commons he joined the popular party, spoke in favour of the proposed See also: bill of attainder against Strafford, and in 1642 was a member of the committee of safety
.
Some of his language about the See also: king was so
See also: frank that See also: Charles demanded his arrest and his trial for high treason
.
When the
See also: Great See also: Rebellion broke out Marten did not take the See also: field, although he was appointed governor of
See also: Reading, but in parliament he was very active
.
On one occasion his zeal in the See also: parliamentary cause led him to open a letter from the See also: earl of See also: Northumberland to his countess, an impertinence for which, says See also: Clarendon, he was "cudgelled" by the earl; and in 1643, on account of some remark about extirpating the royal See also: family, he was expelled from parliament and was imprisoned for a few days
.
In the following See also: year, however, he was made governor of See also: Aylesbury, and about this See also: time took some small See also: part in the war
.
Allowed to return to parliament in See also: January 1646, Marten again advocated extreme views
.
He spoke of his See also: desire to prepare the king for heaven; he attacked the Presbyterians, and, supporting the army against the parliament, he signed the agreement of See also: August 1647
.
He was closely associated with See also: John
See also: Lilburne and the See also: Levellers, and was one of those who suspected the sincerity of See also: Cromwell, whose See also: murder he is said personally to have contemplated
.
However, he acted with Cromwell in bringing Charles I. to trial; he was one of the most prominent of the king's See also: judges and signed the See also: death warrant
.
He was then energetic in establishing the republic and in destroying the remaining vestiges of the monarchicalSee also: system
.
He was chosen a member of the council of See also: state in 1649, and as compensation for his losses and See also: reward for his services during the war, lands valued at bocci a year were settled upon him
.
In parliament he spoke often and with effect, but he took no part in public See also: life during the See also: Protectorate, passing part of this time in prison, where he was placed on account of his debts
.
Having sat among the restored members of the Long Parliament in 16J9, Marten surrendered himself to the authorities as a regicide in See also: June 166o, and with some others he was excepted from the See also: act of indemnity, but with a saving clause
.
He behaved courageously at his trial, which took place in See also: October 166o, but he was found guilty of taking part in the king's death
.
Through the See also: action, or rather the inaction of the House of Lords, he was spared the death See also: penalty, but he remained a See also: captive, and was in prison at See also: Chepstow See also: Castle when he died on the 9th of See also: September 1680
.
Although a leading Puritan, Marten was a man of loose morals
.
He wrote and published several See also: pamphlets, and in 1662 there appeared Henry Marten's See also: Familiar Letters to his Lady of Delight, which contained letters to his See also: mistress, Mary See also: Ward
.
Marten's
See also: father, Sir Henry Marten (c
.
1562-1641), was See also: born in See also: London and was educated at Winchester school and at New College, Oxford, becoming a See also: fellow of the college in 1582
.
Having become a See also: barrister, he secured a large practice and soon came to the front in public life
.
He was sent abroad on some royal business, was made chancellor of the diocese of London, was knighted, and in 1617 became a See also: judge of the See also: admiralty See also: court
.
Later he was appointed a member of the court of high commission and dean of theSee also: arches
.
He became a member of parliament in 1625, and in 1628 represented the university of Oxford, taking part in the debates on the petition of right
.
See J
.
See also: Forster, Statesmen of the See also: Commonwealth (184o); M
.
See also: Noble, Lives of the English Regicides 0798); the article by C
.
H
.
Firth in See also: Diet
.
Nat
.
Biog
.
(1893); and S
.
R
.
See also: Gardiner, See also: History of the Great See also: Civil War and History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate
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