43: A little bit of France in Redhill, Reigate’s rogue MPs from history… and more

3002.657 - 3029.715 Peter Stewart

He was appointed to the court which tried the King and initially attended its proceedings, but he didn't sign the death warrant. embroiled in financial troubles during the 1640s, he was reputedly imprisoned for debt. His incarceration may have come as something of a relief if the allegations that his third wife and her maidservants had once tied him to the bedpost and whipped him.