John Bankstead, executed at Tyburn 1662

John Bankstead, executed at Tyburn 1662. English major general and regicide of King Charles I, hanged at the restoration. 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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