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Born c.1623 • England
Died October 25, 1683 • London • England
Title / Office Queen’s Bench Division (1678-1681), England
Role In Popish Plot
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Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
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William Davison
English royal official
Henry Marten
English jurist
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the elder [1262-1326]
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
Priscilla Alden
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Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
Beatrice Webb
British economist
Sidney Webb
British economist
Poet John Milton
John Milton
English poet
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
British author, philosopher, and statesman
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
queen of England
William I
William I
king of England
Hans Holbein the Younger: Portrait of Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII
king of England
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
John Bunyan, pencil drawing on vellum by Robert White; in the British Museum
John Bunyan
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Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
Horatio Nelson
British naval commander
Hans Holbein the Younger: Sir Thomas More
Thomas More
English humanist and statesman
Henry II and Thomas Becket
Henry II
king of England