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==Notable members and sympathisers== * [[Praise-God Barebone]]; gave his name to the 1653 [[Barebone's Parliament]], arrested after the 1660 Restoration but later released and died in 1679; * [[John Carew (regicide)|John Carew]]; executed as a regicide in 1661; * [[Mary Cary (prophetess)]]; died {{circa}} 1654; * [[Christopher Feake]]; a Fifth Monarchist who shared the egalitarian political views of the [[Levellers]], he was arrested in 1655 under the Protectorate. Released after Cromwell's death in 1658, he disappears from the historical record after 1660; * Major General [[William Goffe]]; regicide, fled to [[New England]] in 1660, where he is thought to have died around 1679; [[File:Thomas venner.jpg|thumbnail|left|upright=0.8|[[Thomas Venner]], executed for treason in 1661]] * Major-General [[Thomas Harrison (soldier)|Thomas Harrison]]; dismissed from the army in 1654 and imprisoned several times under the Protectorate, he was executed as a regicide in October 1660; * [[Morgan Llwyd]]; leader of the Welsh Fifth Monarchists and [[Welsh language]] author, died 1659; * [[John Jones Maesygarnedd]]; served in the Parliamentarian army in Wales during the First and Second English Civil Wars, continued to hold office under the Protectorate, executed as a regicide in October 1660; * Major-General [[Robert Overton]]; arrested several times during the Protectorate, imprisoned on the island of [[Jersey]] from 1661 to 1668, died at home in London 1679; * Major General [[William Packer (Major-General)|William Packer]]; imprisoned briefly after the Restoration, died 1662; * [[Vavasor Powell]]; Welsh preacher, imprisoned by both the Protectorate and the Stuart regime, died in prison 1670; * Colonel [[Thomas Rainsborough]]; often cited as a Fifth Monarchist, he was the leading Leveller spokesman during the 1647 [[Putney Debates]], shared [[Anabaptist]] sympathies and died in 1648 * Colonel [[Nathaniel Rich (soldier)|Nathaniel Rich]]; dismissed from the army along with Harrison and Overton, he was imprisoned under the Protectorate in 1655, then released in 1656. Since he was not a regicide, he escaped punishment after the Restoration, but was arrested during the Venner Rising and held until 1665, after which he lived quietly at home in Essex; * [[John Rogers (Fifth Monarchist)|John Rogers]]; preacher, imprisoned under the Protectorate, went into exile in the [[Dutch Republic]] post 1660; * John Simpson; London-based preacher *[[Anna Trapnell]]; religious visionary from [[Poplar, London]], who opposed The Protectorate, and was considered mad for her advocacy of gender equality. Arrested in 1654, released in 1656, and thereafter disappears from the historical record; * [[Thomas Venner]]; leader of the "Fighting Saints", executed after an abortive rising in January 1661; * [[Arthur Haselrig]]; one of the [[Five Members]] whose attempted arrest in January 1642 was a major step on the road to civil war in August, he shared many of their views, including opposition to [[The Protectorate]]. He sought to prevent the Stuart Restoration, and was confined in the [[Tower of London]] where he died in January 1661. In his will, Haselrig claimed to be a Fifth Monarchist.{{sfn|Haselrig|1661|p=3}}
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