In 1622 Daniel Axtell was born.
On 29th January 1649 King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland [aged 48] fifty-seven commissioners signed King Charles' Death Warrant at Westminster Hall [Map]. Two further names were added subsequently.
10 Thomas Maulever 1st Baronet
14 Major-General William Goffe
21 Admiral Richard Deane
42 John Jones
45 Major General Charles Fleetwood
55 John Downes
57 Thomas Scot
58 John Carew
The commissioners who sat at the trial but did not sign the Death Warrant included:
William Monson 1st Viscount Monson [aged 50]
James Harington 3rd Baronet [aged 41]
The Captain of the Guard was Daniel Axtell [aged 27]. The guards included Francis Hacker, Matthew Tomlinson [aged 31].
The Solicitor-General was John Cook [aged 41].
On 19th October 1660 at Tyburn [Map]..
Daniel Axtell [aged 38] was hanged, drawn and quartered. His head was set on Westminster Hall [Map].
Francis Hacker was hanged. His body was returned to his friends for burial.
John Evelyn's Diary. 14th October 1660. Axtall [aged 38], Carew [aged 38], Clement [aged 66], Hacker, Hewson [Note. Evelyn possibly wrong here since John Hewson died in 1662], and Peters [aged 62], were executed.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th October 1660. Office in the morning. This morning my dining-room was finished with green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very handsome. This morning Hacker and Axtell [aged 38] were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. This night I sat up late to make up my accounts ready against to-morrow for my Lord. I found him to be above £80 in my debt, which is a good sight, and I bless God for it.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 18th October 1660. This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker and Axtell [aged 38] should die, I went to Newgate, but found they were reprieved till to-morrow. So to my aunt Fenner's, where with her and my uncle I drank my morning draft. So to my father's [aged 59], and did give orders for a pair of black baize linings to be made me for my breeches against to-morrow morning, which was done.