Sir Peregrine Pelham was an English

England

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 Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 and one of the regicide

Regicide

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s of King Charles I

Charles I of England

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Pelham was a prosperous merchant in Hull

Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

 before becoming town sheriff in 1636 and the MP for Hull in 1641. In 1642 along with Sir John Hotham

John Hotham

Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet, of Scorborough , English parliamentarian, belonged to a Yorkshire family, and fought on the continent of Europe during the early part of the Thirty Years' War....

, he barred the entry of King Charles into the City, and was present at the siege in the early part of the Civil War

First English Civil War

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. Pelham and Hotham later fell out and, after Hotham was put on trial for allegedly betraying Hull to the Royalist

Cavalier

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s, Pelham signed his death warrant.

During the Second Civil War

Second English Civil War

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, Pelham again defended Hull. In January 1649, as a commissioner of the High Court of Justice

High Court of Justice

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 at the trial of King Charles, he was 20th of the 59 signatories on the death warrant of the King. He also served as Mayor

Mayor

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 of Hull

Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

in that year. He died in 1650.