obey or die. It was... no excuse, for his superior was a traitor..., and where the command is traitorous, there the obedience to that command is also traitorous." On 19 October 1660 Axtell was executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn and his head set up on Westminster Hall. His commanding officer Colonel Francis Hacker had also been condemned as a Regicide and had been executed. Axtell went to his execution unrepentant, declaring "If I had a thousand lives, I could lay them all down for the [Good Old] Cause". During Cromwell's Protectorate, he appropriated Berkhamsted Place' after his execution, the surveyor of Hertfordshire recommended that a new tenant and army officers were needed at Berkhamsted Place "to govern the people much seduced of late by new doctrine preacht unto them by Axtell and his colleagues." In 1678 Axtell's son, also named Daniel Axtell, fled to Carolina after his house in Stoke Newington was searched for seditious libels. He died in 1687. Notes References p.1259) Further reading Col. Daniel Axtell, Regicide Excerpts from his trial The History of Berkhamsted British Civil Wars: Daniel Axtell, Soldier, Regicide, d.1660 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Friday 19 October 1660 1622 births 1660 deaths People from Berkhamsted English Baptists Roundheads Executed regicides of Charles I People executed by Stuart England by hanging, drawing and quartering Executed people from Hertfordshire People of the Irish Confederate Wars Parliamentarian military personnel of the English Civil War