Mervin Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven, English nobleman convicted of rape and sodomy and subsequently beheaded 1631.

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Mervin Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven, English nobleman convicted of rape and sodomy and subsequently beheaded 1631. Copperplate engraving from William Richardson's Portraits illustrating Granger's Biographical History of England, London, 1792–1812. James Granger (1723–1776) was an English clergyman, biographer, and print collector.

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