Augustine Garland (born c. 1603) was an English lawyer, and one of the

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Biography

Garland was educated at

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. He was M.P. for

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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. (main article xx 436) He was recorded to have been sentenced to transportation to

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(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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Attribution: * 1600s births English lawyers Regicides of Charles I Year of death unknown English MPs 1648–1653 English politicians convicted of crimes 17th-century English lawyers {{1648-England-MP-stub