Monk at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
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John Davy
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Carthusian martyrs
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Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat
Jacobite. Taken prisoner at the Battle of Culloden. Tried and was the last man to be beheaded on the Tower Hill scaffold. We're sure that made him feel a lot better about it. 2017: The Scotsman re...
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Anne Boleyn
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John Routh
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Sir William Stanley
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