Henry Ireton, died November 1651. Ireton, 1611-1651, was an English Parliamentarian general and son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. As a regicide of King Charles I, his body was disinterred, hanged at Tyburn gallows and beheaded. 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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