 Temple returned to Parliament with the recall of the Rump and Long Parliaments by General Monck, but following the Restoration in 1660, he was excluded from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, because of his role in the trial and execution of Charles I.He was captured in Warwickshire while trying to travel to Ireland, under his first wife's maiden name of Busbridge.He was held in the Tower of London before being tried as a regicide.