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EDWARD WHALLEY (c. 1615-c. 1675)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 574 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:WHALLEY (c. 1615-c. 1675)  , See also:English See also:regicide, the exact See also:dates of whose See also:birth and See also:death are unknown, was the second son of See also:Richard See also:Whalley, who had been See also:sheriff of See also:Nottinghamshire in 1595, by his second wife Frances See also:Cromwell, aunt of See also:Oliver Cromwell . His See also:great-grandfather was Richard Whalley (1499–1583), a prominent adherent of the See also:protector See also:Somerset and member of See also:parliament . He is said to have started in' the See also:trade of a woollen-See also:draper, but on the outbreak of the great See also:rebellion he took up arms for the parliament, became See also:major of Cromwell's See also:regiment of See also:horse, and greatly distinguished himself in the See also:field . His conduct at See also:Gainsborough fight in 1643 was especially praised by Cromwell; he fought at See also:Marston See also:Moor, commanded one of Cromwell's two regiments of See also:cavalry at See also:Naseby and at the See also:capture of See also:Bristol, was then sent into See also:Oxford-See also:shire, took See also:Banbury, and was besieging See also:Worcester when he was superseded, according to Richard See also:Baxter, the See also:chaplain of his regiment, on See also:account of his religious orthodoxy . He, however, supported his regiment in their grievances against the parliament in 1647 . When the See also:king was seized by the See also:army, he was entrusted to the keeping of Whalley and his regiment at See also:Hampton See also:Court . Whalley refused to remove See also:Charles's chaplains at the bidding of the See also:parliamentary commissioners, and treated his See also:captive with due See also:courtesy, receiving from Charles after his See also:flight a friendly See also:letter of thanks . In the second See also:Civil See also:War, Whalley again distinguished himself as a soldier, and when the king was brought to trial he was chosen to be one of the tribunal and signed his death-See also:warrant . He took See also:part in Cromwell's Scottish expedition, was wounded at See also:Dunbar, and in the autumn of 165o was active in dealing with the situation in See also:north See also:Britain . Next See also:year he took part in Cromwell's pursuit of Charles II. and was in the fight at Worcester . He followed and supported his great kinsman in his See also:political career, presented the army See also:petition to parliament (See also:August 1652), approved of the See also:protectorate, and represented Nottinghamshire in the parliaments of 1654 and 1656, taking an active part in the See also:prosecution of the Quaker See also:James Naylor . He was one of the administrative major-generals, and was responsible for See also:Lincoln, See also:Nottingham, See also:Derby, See also:Warwick and See also:Leicester .

He supported the " Petition and See also:

Advice," except as regards the proposed See also:assumption of the royal See also:title by Cromwell, and became a member of the newly constituted See also:House of Lords in See also:December 1657 . On the protector's death, at which he was See also:present, he in vain gave his support to Richard; his regiment refused to obey his orders, and the See also:Long Parliament dismissed him from his command as a representative of the army . In See also:November 16J9 he undertook an unsuccessful See also:mission to See also:Scotland to arrange terms with See also:Monk . At the Restoration, Whalley, with his son-in-See also:law . See also:General See also:William See also:Goffe, escaped to See also:America, and landed at See also:Boston on the 27th of See also:July 166o, living successively at New Haven and at See also:Hadley, See also:Massachusetts, every See also:attempt on the part of the See also:government at See also:home to procure his See also:arrest See also:meeting with failure . He was alive, but failing in See also:health, in 1674, and probably did not long survive . Whalley was twice married; first to See also:Judith Duffell, by whom, besides other See also:children, he had a son See also:John and a daughter Frances (who married Major-General William Goffe, the regicide); and secondly to See also:Mary See also:Middleton, See also:sister of See also:Sir See also:George Middleton, by whom he had two sons, See also:Henry and See also:Edward .

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