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Henry Cornish & Elizabeth Gaunt executed for involvement in the Rye House Plot...
Henry Cornish & Elizabeth Gaunt executed for involvement in the Rye House Plot...
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October 26, 1685
THE LONDON GAZETTE, England, Oct. 26 1685 The back page has a report from London noting: "This day Henry Cornish was according to the sentence passed upon hi on Monday last at the Old Bailey executed in Cheapside over against King Street."
This was for his involvement in the Rye House Plot.
Also: "Elizabeth Gaunt likewise convicted of High Treason was burnt at Tyburn. And Edward Linsey a soldier was hanged on Tower Hill for running away from his colours."
Elizabeth Gaunt was an English woman sentenced to death for treason after having been convicted for involvement also in the Rye House Plot. She was the last woman executed for a political crime in England. Rather than being hanged, drawn & quartered as was the case for men convicted of high treason, women were burned at the stake.
A single sheet newspaper, 6 1/2 by 11 inches, some foxing to the back page, nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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