and marked the spot with a cannon. A location now known as "Gun Hill" is 2.5 miles south-west of the northern port city of Falmouth, in Trelawny Parish. One of the three men had children who removed to Highland County, Virginia. James Bradshaw acquired the land in Jamaica where his father's remains were buried. Several sources recorded an inscription with the cannon found on Gun Hill, Jamaica, and attribute the quote Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God to John Bradshaw. Legacy While some political philosophers have defended Bradshaw, most legal authorities have taken the view expressed in 1999 by Michael Kirby (then a Justice of the High Court of Australia) that the High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I, of which Bradshaw was president, was illegal. However, in his 2005 book The Tyrannicide Brief (a biography of John Cook, the prosecutor at the trial), Geoffrey Robertson Q.C. put forward the argument that while the court was illegal due to the political settlement reached at the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the trial anticipated the developments in humanitarian law in the second half of the 20th century, and that the leading participants in the trial are to be admired rather than condemned. Bradshaw in popular culture Bradshaw was played by Stratford Johns in the 1970 historical drama film Cromwell. Bradshaw appears in several short stories set in the alternate history 1632 Series.'' In that series, King Charles discovers his future fate by reading books brought to the past in the time-displaced town of Grantville and orders the arrest of execution of almost everyone who would later have been involved in his trial and execution. In one story, John Milton is told by his father that Bradshaw has been executed, but several other stories say that Bradshaw escaped from England and journeyed to Grantville, becoming one of the town's junior district attorneys, and becoming part of a government-in-exile that plots to overthrow Charles and his tyrannical ministers. Notes References . External links Biography of John Bradshaw British Civil Wars website 1602 births 1659 deaths Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster 17th-century English judges People from Stockport Regicides of Charles I People convicted under a bill of attainder People educated at The King's School, Macclesfield Members of Gray's Inn Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Stafford English MPs 1654–1655