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Colonel John Downes (1609 – c. 1666) was a commissioner who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England. After the English Restoration he was found guilty of regicide and was imprisoned until he died. ==Background== John Downes; family had moved southwards from Cheshire to Warwickshire. They were said to be able to trace their Cheshire lineage back to 864 AD, according to John Parsons Earwaker's ''History'' of East Cheshire families. It is said that when the King came hunting in Macclesfield Forest, a Downes would hold the King's stirrup, whilst he mounted and Lord Stanley would hold that of Downes. Stanley refused on the basis of rank: instead he pointed his whip at Downes' stirrup. The Downes held various manors in Cheshire and Lancashire from as early as the 12th century. They were an ancient Forester family, like the Stanleys, Egertons and other Cheshire families whom they married into. They held the manors of Overton, Taxall, Shrigley, Sutton Downes and Wardley. Roger Downes, a friend of Lord Rochester was killed in a London brawl and his head was sent to the family home Wardley Hall. The Hall is supposed to be haunted by his ghost. Some of the Downes family were well known for their adherence to the Catholic faith though in later centuries they were Anglican. It was Francis Downes who retrieved the head of his martyred cousin Ambrose Barlow OSB. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Downes (regicide)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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