John Bradshaw, President of the High Court of Justice, died 1659. Bradshaw, 1602–1659, English jurist, regicide of King Charles I of England. 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 H. Cook within a frame by Robert Cooper from James Caulfield’s The High Court of Justice, London, 1820.

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