Hugh Peters, executed at Charing Cross. Hugh Peter (or Peters), 1598-1660, English puritan preacher, political advisor, parliamentary soldier and regicide of KIng Charles I. Tried, hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on 16 October 1660. 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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