Augustine Garland

{{Short description|English lawyer and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England}}

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Augustine Garland (born c. 1603) was an English lawyer, and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.David Plant. [http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/garland.htm Augustine Garland, Regicide, b.1603], British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website

Biography

Garland was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn.{{acad|id=GRLT618A|name=Garland, Augustin}} He was M.P. for Queenborough in 1648. He presided over the committee to consider method of the king's trial, and in 1649 signed death-warrant. In 1660, after the Restoration, he was condemned to death, but suffered only confiscation of his property and imprisonment.{{harv|Lee|1903|p=478}} (main article xx 436) He was recorded to have been sentenced to transportation to Tangier (which had become a British possession as a dowry for Charles II) in 1664 but there is no evidence the sentence was carried out.

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