Colonel Edward Sexby or Saxby (1616 - 13 January, 1658) was an English Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell. Later he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination.
Edward Sexby was born in Suffolk in 1616 but little else is known about his life before the English Civil War. Reportedly he was a son of a gentleman, had been an apprentice as a grocer in London and may have had family connections to Cromwell. In 1643 h...
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Colonel Edward Sexby or Saxby (1616 - 13 January, 1658) was an English Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell. Later he turned against Cromwell and plotted his assassination.
Edward Sexby was born in Suffolk in 1616 but little else is known about his life before the English Civil War. Reportedly he was a son of a gentleman, had been an apprentice as a grocer in London and may have had family connections to Cromwell. In 1643 he was a trooper in Cromwell's Roundhead cavalry regiment. He adopted Leveller ideals, was involved in the Putney Debates and resisted attempts to come into an agreement with Charles I. He may have been involved in the capture of the king at Holdenby House in 1647.
Later that year he opposed the idea of disbanding the army and left but later reappeared as a captain in 1649. He was appointed as governor of the isle of Portland. In 1650 he was sent to Scotland as a commander of an infantry regiment and also raised a regiment to fight in Ireland....
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