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Title: The execution of the Popish lord: or, The traytor's downfall Being an account of the beheading of VVilliam Viscount Stafford for high treason: on the 29th. of this instant December, 1680. On a scaffold erected for that purpose, on Tower-hill: with many particulars most remarkable, that happened therein. And of the disposal of his body after execution. Which may be a large warning to all the yet remaining Popish conspirators; how they seek to take away the life of the King, and by seeking to destroy the Protestant religion, have hopes to plant Popery once more in England.
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Print source: The execution of the Popish lord: or, The traytor's downfall Being an account of the beheading of VVilliam Viscount Stafford for high treason: on the 29th. of this instant December, 1680. On a scaffold erected for that purpose, on Tower-hill: with many particulars most remarkable, that happened therein. And of the disposal of his body after execution. Which may be a large warning to all the yet remaining Popish conspirators; how they seek to take away the life of the King, and by seeking to destroy the Protestant religion, have hopes to plant Popery once more in England.
[London]: Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in West-Smithfield, [1688]
Subject terms:
Stafford, William Howard, -- Viscount, 1614-1680 -- Early works to 1800.
Stafford, William Howard, -- Viscount, 1614-1680 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Trials (Treason) -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Popish Plot, 1678 -- Early works to 1800.
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