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John Bastwick (1593–1654) was an English Puritan physician and controversial writer.

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Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet was an English soldier and politician.

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John Claypole was an officer in the Parliamentary army in 1645 during the English Civil War. He was created Lord Claypole by Oliver Cromwell, but this title naturally came to an end with the Restoration of 1660.

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Sir John Maynard KS was an English lawyer and politician, prominent under the reigns of Charles I, the Commonwealth, Charles II, James II and William III.

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Anthony Nicholl, also Nicoll, or Nicolls, November 1611 to February 1658, was an English politician, friend and associate of Parliamentary leaders John Pym and John Hampden.

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Colonel Sir Edward Rossiter, 1 January 1618 to 9 January 1669, was an English landowner, soldier and politician from Lincolnshire. He fought for the Parliamentarians in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and was an MP at various times between 1646 and 1660.

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Sir William Waller was an English soldier and politician, who commanded Parliamentarian armies during the First English Civil War, before relinquishing his commission under the 1645 Self-denying Ordinance.