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Image: ONL (1887) 1.091 - Execution of Tomkins and Challoner

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Description: Execution of Richard Challoner and Nathaniel Tomkins in 1643, at the Holborn end of Fetter Lane, for their part in Waller's Plot, a Royalist conspiracy against the Puritan forces in London. One of the two is shown making a speech from the ladder, prior to their hanging.
Title: ONL (1887) 1.091 - Execution of Tomkins and Challoner
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Author: J.M.L.R. and John Quartley
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