one. … Either I or Cromwell must perish". A few months after the arrest of Sindercombe, an apology for tyrannicide, entitled Killing No Murder—which was dedicated to Cromwell—arrived in England from Holland. It was published by Sexby, probably with the assistance of Silius Titus, under the name of a former Army agitator called William Allen. In June he followed the pamphlet to England, to concert measures for carrying out its principles, and on 24 July, just as he was embarking for Flanders again, he was arrested "in a mean habit disguised as a countryman". He died in the Tower on 13 January 1658, "having been a while distracted in his mind and long sick". His body was buried in the cemetery near the Tower chapel two days later. Killing No Murder was answered by Michael Hawke of the Middle Temple in Killing is Murder, and no Murder: or An exercitation concerning a scurrilous pamphlet, of one William Allen, a Jesuitical impostor, intituled Killing No Murder, London, Printed for the author, 1657. Sexby's authorship of the former is proved by internal evidence, and by his own confession made in the Tower. Captain Silius Titus, who was intimate with Sexby and may perhaps have assisted him in writing it, repudiated him after the Restoration. Family His wife visited him during his imprisonment in the Tower, but no other information about her has been found. Fictional portrayals A character based on Sexby was portrayed by John Simm in the 2008 television drama The Devil's Whore, with several significant changes to the facts of his biography. Sexby appears in the novel Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davis. Sexby also appears as a character in the 1976 play by Caryl Churchill, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, as a participant in the Putney Debates. Notes References Attribution Further reading External links British History Online: Parishes Bushey British History Online: Parishes Ramsey Edgar Allan Poe Marginalia – Part IV University of Western Ontario: Books Online 1616 births 1658 deaths Military personnel from Suffolk Roundheads Levellers People of the Interregnum (England) Prisoners in the Tower of London