BRADSHAW

John, president of the High Court of Justice which tried and condemned Charles He studied law in Gray's Inn, and obtained much chamber practice from the partisans of the Parliament, to which he was zealously devoted. When the trial of the king was determined upon, the resolute character of Bradshaw pointed him out for president, which office, after a slight hesitation, he accepted. His deportment on the trial was lofty and unbending, in conformity to the theory which rendered the unhappy sovereign a criminal, and amenable; and everything was done, both for and by him, to give weight and dignity to this extraordinary tribimal. He rendered himself obnoxious to Cromwell, when the latter seized the protectorate, and was deprived of the chief -justiceship of Chester. On the death Cromwell, and the restoration of the Long Parliament, he obtained a seat in the council, and was elected president He died in 1669, and on his death-bed a erted that, if the king were to be tried and condemned again, he would be the first to agree to it. He was magnificently buried in Westminster Abbey, whence his body was ejected, and hanged on a gibbet at Tyburn, with those of Oliver and Lreton, at the Restoration.