Edward II, Edward of Caernarvon, King of England, 1284-1327. Portrait of the king in crown and mantle, holding orb and sceptre, Curtain hanging over the frame. Vignette showing his murder with a red hot poker in his anus while imprisoned in Berkeley Castle. Edvardus II Rex Ang. Copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by George Vertue from his Heads of the Kings of England, proper for Mr Rapin’s History, translated by N. Tindal, printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, London, 1736.

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