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David,
David Axtell is described thus in Walthoe's "Indictment, Arrangement, Trial, and Judgement, At Large, of Twenty-Nine Regicides, the Murtherers of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles the Ist." published in 1660.
"David Axtell was a grocer's apprentice in London; when the Rebellion broke out, he run along with the Fanatick Army; and being a Gifted Man, he was soon taken Notice of, and advanced among them.
When the Army was in Uproar and the Mutiny at New-Market against their Masters the Parliament, he was one of those Agitators who were chosen out of every Company to represent their pretended Grievances, and to let the Parliament knosw that they refused to disband, and that they were not satisfied with the Term of Peace proposed in the Isle of Wright. At this time he shewed himself very forward in impeaching several Members of the House calling them Rotten Members, and was very active in secluding and imprisoning them.
What Part he acted in the Royal Tragedy, how he beat his Soldiers to make them cry Justice and Execution, when the King passed to his Trial through Westminster-Hall, and how he went offstage at last, is told at large in his Trial and Speeches.
In that Expedition which was mde to reduce Ireland, he is charged with committing hellish Cruelties, not only upon the Native Irish, whom he murdered like Vermin, but upon the Protestants and English also, sparing none, even after he had promised them fair Quarter. He hanged what Gentry of the Country he pleased, whether guilty or not; his own Will was his Law. This barbarity was so notorious that his own merciless BGrethen of the Army resented it, and drew up Articles against him in a Court-Martial, which had been executed upon him, had not the Anabaptists (his own sect) been the predominant Party, and Suffered the Business to drop."
Fortunately Major General William Goffe (not Gough) escaped such an indictment at the hands of this Royalist jury.
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