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A solid favorite with traditional cigar smokers since 1884.  This is one of the original brands that has been continuously produced.  The Judges Cave Cigar has a place in the history of the United States and in every smoker's heart.  Integrity - living up to ideals make Judges Cave the best liked smoke among men who know true quality.  Judges Cave has a matchless flavor and aroma..  4 1/2 inches, 47 ring gauge. Dark, Naturale (cello available), & Light Wrappers.  Box of 50 or 10-5 packs.
    The Judges Cave Cigar is named after a Famous Cave. FIFTY-NINE judges who has been appointed by the Commons House of Parliament for the trial of King Charles the I of England signed the warrant for his execution in 1649.  Twenty-four of these were still living at the time of the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.  With other persons charged with being accomplices they were tried and condemned after the end of the protetorate of Oliver Cromwell.  Sixteen of the judges fled and finally escaped, two of whom, Major General Edward Whalley and Major General William Goffe secreted themselves in New England and spend the remainder of their lives there.
    After it had become certain that the monarchy was to be restored, Whalley and Goffe left England before Charles the II ascended the throne.  They arrived in Boston July 27th, 1660, where they were all received, but when it appeared late in November that they were not excepted from the sentence imposed on the other regicides the principal persons of the Government of Massachusetts became alarmed.  With the help of loyal friends Whalley and Goffe fled to New Haven, arriving on the 7th of March, 1661.  They were hospitably treated in New Haven by the ministers and magistrates, and after the proclamation of King Charles the II ordering their return to England for trial, they were hidden in the home of Reverend John Davenport, pastor of Center Church, until April 30th.  From that time they were concealed at various homes in New Haven and the districts about New Haven for over a year, the magistrates, ministers and other citizens refusing to give them up.
When the English Government sent searchers to New Haven for them in 1662 they were concealed in Westville and Woodbridge until it was finally decided that it was necessary for them to go into the woods to escape capture.  With the help of the Sperry family they covered with boughs of trees and otherwise some large rocks on the summit of what is now West Rock and remained there until after the searchers had disappeared.  Since that time these rocks have been known as Judges' Cave.  Goffe's Journal says:  They entered this Cave on the 15th of May and continued in it until the 11th of June, where Richard Sperry supplied them with food from his house a mile away.  On the night of June 11th they were frightened away by a panther and fled to Mr. Sperrys home for safety.
Soon after this they disappeared and spend the remainer of their lives in Tadley, Massachussetts.
Colonel John Dixwell, another regicide, did not come to New Haven until much later and his identity was not known until his death.  He is buried on the New Haven Green.
This account of the visit of the regicides to New Haven is given by Ezra Stiles, President of Yale, in a book published November 20th, 1793, and dedicated "To all the patrons of real, perfect and unpolluted liberty, civil and religious, throughout the world; this history of three of its most illustrious and heroic, but unfortunate defenders is humbly submitted and dedicated, by a hitherto, uncorrupted friend to universal liberty."

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