Colonel John Okey, executed at Tyburn 1662

Colonel John Okey, executed at Tyburn. Colonel John Okey, 1606-1662, was a political and religious radical who served in the Parliamentarian army, regicide of King Charles I. Tried, hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn gallows on 19 April 1662. With his autograph and seal. Within a frame decorated with vignettes of skull and cross bones, chains and executioner's axe, a man hanging from a gibbet at Tyburn, a condemned man on a sled, the Tower of London, Newgate Prison. Copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper from James Caulfield's The High Court of Justice, London, 1820

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