ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how the relationship between Ireton and Cromwell, particularly with regard to the regicide, was portrayed in print in the early years of the Restoration and how this shaped views of Cromwell and the regicide and the role of Ireton and Harrison in bringing about Charles I's execution. Central to many of these Restoration representations of their relationships was kinship. While considering the public revenge the Restoration regime applied to the bodies of Cromwell and Ireton, as well as Cromwell and Ireton's surviving kin, the chapter looks at the private elements of more localised consequences of the Restoration for Ireton and Cromwell's kin as individuals chose to take action against them in Chancery or in print, for example, John Ireton as a leading London republican politician regarded as a supporter of the New Model from his kinship to Cromwell. While most such Chancery proceedings were the actions of private individuals, they were taken and framed in language to utilise the recent civil wars to justify their cases by shaping their use of Chancery to be more of a public forum of competing memories of the civil wars.
