Opposition to tyrants is obedience to God

From The Hunt For The Regicides by Alexander Winston.  Subheading "They had sent King Charles to the scaffold without remorse. Now they were fugitives in New England with a big price on their heads."  From 1966, a forgotten chapter in early American history.  The Puritans fled to these shores between 1620-40.  In 1642 the English Civil War led to the Puritan Commonwealth in England led by Oliver Cromwell.  This lasted till 1660 and Cromwell's demise.  

At the opening of the Civil War, Parliament's High Court of Justice found Charles I guilty of upholding tyrannical power and sentenced him beheading.  There were fifty-nine signers of Charles' death warrant and on his execution they become regicides.  And on the restoration of the monarchy with Charles II in 1660, they became hunted regicides.  

Three, Edward Whalley, William Goffe, and John Dixwell, eventually escaped to the New England Puritan colonies where there was abiding religious support.  All three lived out their natural lives though always fugitives and protected solely by the steadfast discretion of their co-religionists.  

Whalley died in 1674, Goffe died in or after 1679, and Dixwell died in 1688.  

North of New Haven there is a cave with a plaque commemorating an early event in Whalley and Goffe's escape to the New England Colonies.  "Here May Fifteenth 1661 and for some weeks thereafter Edward Whalley and his son-in-law William Goffe, members of the Parliament General, officers in the army of the Commonwealth and signers of the death warrant of King Charles First, found shelter and concealment from the officers of the Crown after the Restoration."

It ends with the ringing Puritan admonition:  "Opposition to tyrants is obedience to God."