Augustine Garland was an English lawyer, and one of the Regicide

Regicide

The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a monarch, or the person responsible for the killing of a monarch. In a narrower sense, in the British tradition, it refers to the judicial execution of a king after a trial...

s of King Charles I of England.

Garland was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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, and Lincoln's Inn

Lincoln's Inn

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. He was M.P. for Queenborough

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 in 1648. He presided over the committee to consider method of the king's trial, and in 1649 signed death-warrant. In 1660, after the Restoration, he was condemned to death, but suffered only confiscation of his property and imprisonment.