Part of the challenge in enacting a peaceful restoration of Charles II came in deciding how broad the net of pardons could be spread. In the Declaration of Breda two weeks earlier, Charles had promised that actions carried out by soldiers under orders would be pardoned. On 14 May, however, the Convention Parliament made the decision to exempt the regicides - those who had voted for the execution of Charles I in 1649 - from the general pardon, and ordered their arrest.
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