John Alured (1607–1651) was an army officer who fought for the parliamentary cause in the

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and was one of the

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s of King

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in 1649.Scott, ODNB He was born in

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. He inherited the family estate in 1628 and married Mary Darley (second cousin) in 1631. Alured was the MP for

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in both the Short and

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s. He spent most of the First Civil War as a colonel in Lord Fairfax's northern parliamentarian army, and is known to have fought at Adwalton Moor in 1643 and possibly at

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in 1644. He was a member of

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's Hull congregation. In February 1645 he took up a new command in the

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. In 1649, appointed to the

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at the trial of King Charles, he was one of the signatories of the King's death warrant. At the

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in 1660, because of his act of regicide he was, although by then dead, a named exception in the general pardon (

Act of Oblivion The Indemnity and Oblivion Act 1660 ( 12 Cha. 2. c. 11) was an act of the Parliament of England, the long title of which is "An Act of Free and Generall Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion". This act was a general pardon for everyone who had comm ...

, section XXXVIII), which meant that any property that was held by the beneficiaries of his estate could be confiscated.

Notes

** JHC, 2–7 (1640–59) ** W. D. Pink, ''Alured of the Charterhouse, co. York'', Yorkshire Genealogist, 1 (1888), 1–4 ** ''God's plot: the paradoxes of puritan piety, being the autobiography and journal of Thomas Shepard'', ed. M. McGiffert (1972) ** W. L. F. Nuttall, ''The Yorkshire commissioners appointed for the trial of King Charles the First'', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 43 (1971), 147–57 ** J. G. Muddiman, ''The trial of King Charles the First'' (1928) ** J. A. Jones, ''The war in the north: the northern parliamentarian army in the English civil war, 1642–1645'', PhD diss., York University, Toronto, 1991 ** A. E. Trout, ''Nonconformity in Hull'', Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, 9 (1924–6), 29–43, 78–85, esp. 31–2 ** Bodl. Oxf., MS Nalson IV, fols. 60, 108, 187, 282, 309 ** Bodl. Oxf., MS Nalson V, fol. 21 ** I. Morgan, Prince Charles's puritan chaplain (1957) ** D. Scott, ''Darley, Henry'', HoP, Commons

** D. Scott, ''"Hannibal at our gates": loyalists and fifth-columnists during the bishops' wars—the case of Yorkshire'', Historical Research, 70 (1997), 269–93 ** court of chancery, TNA: PRO, C10/14/3 ** court of chancery, TNA: PRO, C10/465/3 ** state papers domestic, Charles I, TNA: PRO, SP 16/395/29, fol. 56 ** ''Oliver Cromwell the late great tirant his life-guard'' (1660), 5 {{DEFAULTSORT:Alured, John 1607 births 1651 deaths English MPs 1640 (April) English MPs 1640–1648 Members of the Parliament of England for Hedon Military personnel from Kingston upon Hull Regicides of Charles I Roundheads

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