Miles Corbet

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Miles Corbet (1595–1662) was an English politician, recorder of Yarmouth and a regicide of King Charles I.

Life

Born a member of the Corbet family he was the son of Sir Thomas Corbet of Sprowston, Norfolk and the younger brother of Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, MP for Great Yarmouth from 1625 to 1629. He entered Lincoln's Inn and was appointed Recorder of Great Yarmouth.Template:Sfn

Miles succeeded his brother John as MP for Yarmouth, England, serving from 1640 to 1653,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and was a signatory of the death warrant of Charles I.

In 1644, he was made clerk of the Court of Wards. In 1649, Oliver Cromwell granted the estate of Malahide Castle to Corbet after the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. In 1655, Corbet was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.Template:Sfn

Arms of Miles Corbet as per his seal on the Charles I's Execution warrant

After the restoration of King Charles II in 1660, the castle was returned to its ancestral owners. All the 59 men who had signed the death warrant of Charles I were in grave danger of severe punishment because they were considered regicides. Miles Corbet, like many of them, fled England. He went to the Netherlands where he thought he would be safe. However, along with two other regicides, John Okey and John Barkstead, he was arrested by the English ambassador to the Netherlands, Sir George Downing, and returned to England under guard. After a trial, Corbet was found guilty, and executed on 19 April 1662. In his dying speech he said: Template:Quote

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Attribution

External links

• The former home of Miles Corbet
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