Hugh Peters, executed at Charing Cross. Hugh Peter (or Peters), 1598-1660, English puritan preacher, political advisor, parliamentary soldier and regicide of KIng Charles I. Tried, hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on 16 October 1660. Within a frame decorated with vignettes of skull and cross bones, chains and executioners 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 Caulfields The High Court of Justice, London, 1820.
Hugh Peters, executed at Charing Cross. Hugh Peter (or Peters), 1598-1660, English puritan preacher, political advisor, parliamentary soldier and regicide of KIng Charles I. Tried, hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross on 16 October 1660. Within a frame decorated with vignettes of skull and cross bones, chains and executioners 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 Caulfields The High Court of Justice, London, 1820.