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Robert Phayre (regicide)

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220:, whose life he had spared, also pleaded for him. On 2 November (Hacker had been hanged on 19 October; Huncks had saved himself by giving evidence) he petitioned the privy council to release his estate from sequestration, and permit him to return to Ireland. This was not granted, but in December the sequestration was taken off his Irish estates, and he was given the liberty of the Tower on parole. On 3 July 1661, he was released for one month, on a bond of £2,000. He was not to go beyond the house and gardens of Sir Thomas Herbert, his father-in-law, in Petty France, Westminster. On 19 July another month's absence was permitted him, with leave to go to the country for his health. On 28 February 1662, he was allowed to remove to Sir Thomas Herbert's house for three months. After this he seems to have gained his liberty. 545: 239:, the stroker, who had served in his regiment in 1649. Greatrakes cured him in a few minutes of an acute ague. In 1666 Phaire was implicated in the abortive plot for seizing Dublin Castle. Both Phaire and his family corresponded with Muggleton. Phaire's first letter to Muggleton was dated 20 March 1670; his second letter (Dublin, 27 May 1675) was sent by Greatrakes, who was on a visit to London and Devon. 514: 110:
and by September 1646 he had risen to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the regiment of Richard Townshend. In February 1648 he was arrested, with three other officers, for refusing to join the royalist rising under Inchiquin. On 4 October these four were exchanged for Inchiquin's son, and brought to
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In April 1649 he was given command of a Kentish regiment to join Cromwell's expedition to Ireland. In November the town of Youghal capitulated to him, and he was made one of the commissioners for settling Munster. On 10 April 1650, he took part, under
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gave Phaire a commission as colonel of foot to serve under Ludlow in Ireland. At the Restoration, he was arrested in Cork (18 May 1660), and sent prisoner to Dublin. Thence he was removed to London, and sent to the
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however caution is recommended because some families who were not descendants (such as some of the surname Fair) also took on this spelling. The senior line (descendants of Onesiphorus), continued the spelling
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Phaire died at the Grange, near Cork, in 1682, probably in September. He was buried in the baptist graveyard at Cork. His will, dated 13 September 1682, was proved in November.
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started. They both sustained losses. Robert assessed his financial losses during this period amounted to £51 10s. Like many Protestants he joined
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He was an officer in London in January 1649 and the warrant for the execution of Charles was addressed, on 29 January 1649, to Colonel
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Phaire was born about 1619 (for on 24 March 1654 his age is reported as thirty-five), the son of the Revd Emmanuel Phaire from
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Phaire's first wife, whose name is not known, but is traditionally said to have been Gamble. They had several children:
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in June. He doubtless owed his life, and the easy treatment he experienced, to his connection with Sir Thomas Herbert;
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Deed Memorials at the Registry of Deeds office, The Property Registration Authority, Henrietta St, Dublin 1, Ireland
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extracts from family papers furnished (1871) by W. J. O'Donnovan, esq., a descendant of Onesiphorus Phaire.
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It is somewhat remarkable that Phaire himself married, as his second wife, Elizabeth, second daughter of
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This article is about the 17th-century soldier and regicide. For the 19th-century British officer, see
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He was a parliamentary republican, dissatisfied with the rule of the army officers, and unfriendly to
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was addressed, but he escaped severe punishment at the Restoration by having married the daughter of
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Thomas (died 1716), a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. He married Alicia Purdon, sister of
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On 6 April 1665, Phaire was living at Cahermore, County Cork, when he was visited by
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Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707
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On 8 July 1659, shortly after the fall of the protectorate, the London-based
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Among some of his descendants in the later 1700s the surname was modified to
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Notes and Queries, 5th ser. xii. 47, 311, 6th ser. ii. 150, iv. 235, 371;
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Council Book of the Corporation of Cork (Caulfield), 1876, p. 1164;
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Cork Historical and Archæological Journal, June 1893, pp. 449 sq.;
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Barnard, Toby (October 2008) . "Phaire, Robert (1618/19–1682)".
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O'Hart's Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, 1884, p. 15;
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meetings. He does not appear to have become a member of the
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It was during this period that he made the acquaintance of
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Onesiphorus (died 1702), who married Elizabeth Phaire
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Officer in the Irish Protestant and New Model Armies
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State Papers, Dom. 1649–61; 565:Dictionary of National Biography 543: 536:Dictionary of National Biography 512: 98:in county Cork in 1641 when the 94:Both father and son were living 271:Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet 167: 156:over the royalist forces under 143:Cromwellian conquest of Ireland 355: 310: 284:Alexander Herbert (died 1752). 202: 176:. He seems to have retired to 1: 435: 77: 600:Ludlow's Memoirs, ed. Firth; 499:UK public library membership 442:Greaves, Richard L. (1998). 7: 554:Gordon, Alexander (1896). " 473:. Vol. 2. p. 422. 364:, p. 142 cites Carte, 126: 111:Bristol in December by the 10: 660: 465:Hargrave, Francis (1795). 18: 523:Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). 467:"Trial of Colonel Hacker" 250: 54:(1606–1682). He became a 25:Robert Phayre (cricketer) 291: 242: 629:Regicides of Charles I 491:10.1093/ref:odnb/22087 48:execution of Charles I 38:armies and one of the 197:St Werburgh's, Dublin 237:Valentine Greatrakes 119:. 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Index

Robert Phayre (Indian Army officer)
Robert Phayre (cricketer)
New Model
regicide
Charles I of England
execution of Charles I
Sir Thomas Herbert
Muggletonian
Devonshire
Duhallow
Irish Uprising
Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin
Confederates
Roundhead
William Penn
New Model Army
Francis Hacker
Hercules Huncks
Lord Broghill
victory at Macroom
Boetius MacEgan
County Cork
the Protectorate
Rostellan Castle
Quaker
Society of Friends
Sir Thomas Herbert
St Werburgh's, Dublin
Committee of Safety
Tower of London

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