Regicides

In July, 1660, there arrived at Cambridge, Mase., Edward Whalley, and his son-in-law, William Goffe, two of the judges who had condemned Charles I. For some months they appeared in public and joined in the devotional meetings in Cambridge and Boston, where they were kindly received. Upon the news of the pa age by Parliament of the Indemnity Act, marking Whalley and Goffe for vengeance as regicides, they fled to New Haven and were received and concealed by Davenport in the ‘‘ Judges’ Cave.’’ They were concealed from pursuit at New Haven and Milford for nearly two years. After this they fied to a cave in New Hampshire, but were there discovered by some Indians, and returned to Hadley, Ma ., where they were concealed until their death, Whalley dying in 1674, Goffe in 1679. When King Philip attacked Hadley in 1675, Goffe appeared and led the defense. Dixwell, another regicide, also escaped to New England.