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Major-General William Goffe, probably born between 1613 and 1618, died c. 1679/1680, was an English Parliamentarian soldier who served with the New Model Army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A religious radical nicknamed “Praying William” by contemporaries, he approved the Execution of Charles I in January 1649, and later escaped prosecution as a regicide by fleeing to New England.
Judges' Cave, where Goffe and Edward Whalley reputedly hid during the early part of their exile in New England
St Nicholas church, Bramber, where Goffe's father served as parish priest until c. 1607
Oliver Cromwell, c. 1649; Goffe was one of his most loyal supporters
Sir Edward Harley was an English politician from Herefordshire. A devout Puritan who fought for Parliament in the First English Civil War, Harley belonged to the moderate Presbyterian faction, which opposed the involvement of the New Model Army in the peace negotiations that followed victory in 1646. Elected MP for Herefordshire in 1646, he was one of the Eleven Members forced into temporary exile by the army in 1647.
The remains of Brampton Bryan Castle, almost totally destroyed during the war
Pride's Purge, December 1648; Harley, his father and younger brother Robert were among the MPs excluded by his former deputy
Brampton Bryan Hall, built by Harley after the Stuart Restoration to replace Brampton Bryan Castle