Queen Mary I, releasing the state prisoners from the Tower of London, England, 1553. The release of the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk, Edward Courtenay and Stephen Gardiner from imprisonment, following the plot to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne
Illustration by Edmund Blair Leighton (1852-1922) from Cassell's Century Edition History of England, pub circa 1901. Info from wiki: One of Mary's first actions as queen was to order the release of the Roman Catholic Duke of Norfolk and Stephen Gardiner from imprisonment in the Tower of London, as well as her kinsman Edward Courtenay.[78] Mary understood that the young Lady Jane was essentially a pawn in Dudley's scheme, and Dudley was the only conspirator of rank executed for high treason in the immediate aftermath of the coup. Lady Jane and her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley, though found guilty, were kept under guard in the Tower rather than immediately executed, while Lady Jane's father, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, was released.[79] Mary was left in a difficult position, as almost all the Privy Counsellors had been implicated in the plot to put Lady Jane on the throne
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