Editing Regicide (section)

==== Britain, 1760–1850 ====
Some people throughout in the 1760–1850 period in England and Great Britain who have been suspected, arrested, and perhaps punished for trying to lethally harm the reigning monarch, which has sometimes been understood to be attempted "regicide", do not appear to have had the intention of actually killing the king or queen.{{sfn|Poole|2000|p=212}} According to Poole (2000), the actions and utterances of English figures such as Nicholson, Firth, Sutherland, Hadfield, Collins, Oxford, Francis and Bean, all of whom tried to get the monarch's attention for some matter, "point more often to physical remonstance after experiences of extreme frustration with an ineffectual petitioning process."{{sfn|Poole|2000|p=212}} Others who did try to kill the ruler did so not in order to replace the monarchy with a republic, but because they hoped that their successor would be a better ruler, and able to address certain issues which, in the would-be assassins' views, the current sovereign failed to properly act on.{{sfn|Poole|2000|p=212}} According to British radical orator [[John Thelwall]] (1764–1834), regicide was simply a means of replacing an unacceptable monarch with a better one.{{sfn|Poole|2000|p=14}}