William Strode (1598-9 September 1645) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1624 to 1645.
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William Strode was born in Newnham, Devon, England in 1598, and he became a lawyer in 1619 and MP for Bere Alston in 1624. He opposed King Charles I of England from the start, opposing arbitrary taxation and innovations in religion. He was imprisoned in eleven years for disorderly conduct in Parliament, but he was released in January 1640. He served in the Long Parliament and, on 3 January 1642, he was among the five Parliamentarian MPs impeached by King Charles for high treason on the eve of the First English Civil War. He was present at the Battle of Edgehill, and he expedited Archbishop William Laud's execution before dying in Westminster shortly after.