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George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, the Glossary

George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (15 May 1645 – 18 April 1689), also known as "the Hanging Judge", was a Welsh judge.^[1]

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Burials at the Church of St Peter ad Vincula
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Monmouth Rebellion
Peers of England created by James II
People associated with the Popish Plot
People from Wem

Act of Settlement 1701

The Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Will. 3. c. 2) is an act of the Parliament of England that settled the succession to the English and Irish crowns to only Protestants, which passed in 1701.

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Acton, Wrexham

Acton (Gwaunyterfyn) is a suburb and community in Wrexham, Wrexham County Borough, Wales.

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Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Algernon Sidney are people of the Rye House Plot.

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Alice Lisle

Alice, Lady Lisle (September 16172 September 1685), commonly known as Alicia Lisle or Dame Alice Lyle, was a landed lady of the English county of Hampshire, who was executed for harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor.

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All Hallows-by-the-Tower

All Hallows-by-the-Tower, at one time dedicated jointly to All Hallows (All Saints) and the Virgin Mary and sometimes known as All Hallows Barking, is an ancient Anglican church on Byward Street in the City of London, England, overlooking the Tower of London.

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Anglesey

Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales.

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Animus nocendi

In jurisprudence, animus nocendi is the subjective state of mind of the perpetrator of a crime, with reference to the exact knowledge of illegal content of his behaviour, and of its possible consequences.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Baron Jeffreys

Baron Jeffreys is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Baronet

A baronet (or; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (or; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown.

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Bishop of London

The bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.

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Bulstrode Park

Bulstrode is an English country house and its large park, located to the southwest of Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Canterbury

Canterbury is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974.

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Captain Blood (1935 film)

Captain Blood is a 1935 American black-and-white swashbuckling pirate film from First National Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead (with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer), directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Ross Alexander.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Cavalier

The term "Cavalier" was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 –). It was later adopted by the Royalists themselves.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Church of St Peter ad Vincula

The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula ("St Peter in chains") is a Chapel Royal and the former parish church of the Tower of London.

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Common Serjeant of London

The Common Serjeant of London (full title The Serjeant-at-Law in the Common Hall) is an ancient British legal office, first recorded in 1291, and is the second most senior permanent judge of the Central Criminal Court after the Recorder of London, acting as deputy to that office, and sitting as a judge in the trial of criminal offences. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Common Serjeant of London are common Serjeants of London.

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Commonwealth of England

The Commonwealth was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The republic's existence was declared through "An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth", adopted by the Rump Parliament on 19 May 1649.

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Consul (representative)

A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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Custos Rotulorum of Buckinghamshire

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Buckinghamshire.

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Dorchester, Dorset

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset, England.

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Dragon

A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide.

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Duke of Albany

Duke of Albany is a peerage title that has occasionally been bestowed on younger sons in the Scottish and later the British royal family, particularly in the Houses of Stuart and Hanover.

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Duke of York

Duke of York is a title of nobility in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Ecclesiastical Commission of 1686

The Ecclesiastical Commission was an English court of enquiry established in July 1686 by James II under the Royal prerogative, and headed by Judge Jeffreys.

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Edward Herbert (judge)

Sir Edward Herbert (c. 1648 – November 1698), titular Earl of Portland, was an English judge who served as Chief Justice of the King's Bench during the reign of James II. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Edward Herbert (judge) are Lord chief justices of England and Wales.

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Elliot Levey

Elliot Levey (born 6 December 1973) is an English Olivier award winning actor.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.

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Erddig

Erddig is a country house and estate approximately south of Wrexham, Wales.

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Flintshire

Flintshire (Sir y Fflint) is a county in the north-east of Wales.

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Fonmon Castle

Fonmon Castle (Castell Ffwl-y-mwn) is a fortified medieval castle near the village of Fonmon in the Vale of Glamorgan and a Grade I listed building.

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Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford

Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford PC (23 February 1620 – 19 September 1708), styled The Honourable between 1642 and 1651, was an English soldier, courtier and Whig politician. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford are Lord-Lieutenants of Shropshire and Members of the Privy Council of England.

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Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford

Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford, PC, KC(22 October 1637 – 5 September 1685) was the third son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North, and his wife Anne Montagu, daughter of Sir Charles Montagu of Boughton House and Mary Whitmore. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford are Lord Chancellors and Members of the Privy Council of England.

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Francis Pemberton

Sir Francis Pemberton (18 July 1624 – 10 June 1697) was an English judge and briefly Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the course of a turbulent career. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Francis Pemberton are Lord chief justices of England and Wales, Members of the Privy Council of England and people of the Rye House Plot.

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Fulton, Missouri

Fulton is the largest city in and the county seat of Callaway County, Missouri, United States.

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George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (British Army officer)

George Darell Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, (8 March 1878 – 19 December 1960) was a British Army officer and Conservative Member of Parliament.

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Glamorgan

Until 1974, Glamorgan, or sometimes Glamorganshire (Morgannwg or Sir Forgannwg), was an administrative county in the south of Wales, and later classed as one of the thirteen historic counties of Wales.

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Glorious Revolution

The Glorious Revolution is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688.

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Gray's Inn

The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London.

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Henrietta Louisa Fermor

Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret (née Jeffreys; 15 November 1698 – 15 December 1761), was an English letter writer.

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High Sheriff of Denbighshire

The first High Sheriff of Denbighshire was John Salusbury, snr, appointed in 1540.

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Holt, Wrexham

Holt is a medieval village and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales.

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Humphry William Woolrych

Humphry William Woolrych (1795–1871) was an English lawyer, known as a legal writer and biographer.

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Inner Temple

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, commonly known as the Inner Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court and is a professional association for barristers and judges.

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James II of England

James VII and II (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685.

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John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater

John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, PC (30 May 1623 – 26 October 1686), was an English nobleman from the Egerton family. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater are Lord-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire and Members of the Privy Council of England.

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John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater

John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater KB PC (9 November 1646 – 19 March 1701) was a British nobleman from the Egerton family. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater are Lord-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire.

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John Evelyn

John Evelyn (31 October 162027 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist.

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John Lisle

Sir John Lisle (1610 – 11 August 1664) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and John Lisle are Lord Chancellors.

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Justice of Chester

The Justice of Chester was the chief judicial authority for the county palatine of Chester, from the establishment of the county until the abolition of the Great Sessions in Wales and the palatine judicature in 1830.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Kidney

In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Losena) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud.

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Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.

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Leonard Mudie

Leonard Mudie (born Leonard Mudie Cheetham; April 11, 1883April 14, 1965) was an English character actor whose career lasted for nearly fifty years.

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Lord Chancellor

The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Lord Chancellor are Lord Chancellors.

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Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

The Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales (alternatively Lord Chief Justice when the holder is male) is the head of the judiciary of England and Wales and the president of the courts of England and Wales.

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Lord High Steward

The Lord High Steward is the first of the Great Officers of State in England, nominally ranking above the Lord Chancellor.

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Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire

There has been a Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire almost continuously since the position was created by King Henry VIII in 1535. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire are Lord-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire.

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Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire are Lord-Lieutenants of Shropshire.

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Lord Mayor of London

The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, and the leader of the City of London Corporation.

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Lorna Doone (1951 film)

Lorna Doone is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Barbara Hale and Richard Greene.

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Lorna Doone (2000 film)

Lorna Doone is a British romance/drama television mini-series version of Richard Doddridge Blackmore's 1869 novel of the same name that aired on BBC One from 24 to 26 December 2000 in the UK and on A&E on 11 March 2001 in the U.S. The film won the Royal Television Society's Television Award for Best Visual Effects by Colin Gorry.

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Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth

Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (5 September 1649 – 14 November 1734) was a French mistress of King Charles II of England.

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Ludlow

Ludlow is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England.

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Martin's Close

"Martin's Close" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, included in his 1911 collection More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.

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Michael Kitchen

Michael Roy Kitchen (born 31 October, 1948) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the ITV drama Foyle's War, which comprised eight series between 2002 and 2015.

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Monmouth Rebellion

The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II, who in February 1685 succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Order of Alcántara

The Order of Alcántara (Leonese: Orde de Alcántara, Orden de Alcántara), also called the Knights of St.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Pat Aherne

Patrick de Lacy Aherne (6 January 1901 – 30 September 1970) was an English film actor.

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Peerage of England

The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707.

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Philip Henry

Philip Henry (24 August 1631 – 24 June 1696) was an English Nonconformist clergyman and diarist.

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Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke

Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, 4th Earl of Montgomery KB (1652/53 – 29 August 1683) was an English nobleman and politician who succeeded to the titles and estates of two earldoms on 8 July 1674 on the death of his brother William Herbert, 6th Earl of Pembroke.

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Popish Plot

The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.

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Privy Council of England

The Privy Council of England, also known as His (or Her) Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, was a body of advisers to the sovereign of the Kingdom of England.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Pyelonephritis

Pyelonephritis is inflammation of the kidney, typically due to a bacterial infection.

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Recorder of London

The recorder of London is an ancient legal office in the City of London.

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Regicide

Regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch or sovereign of a polity and is often associated with the usurpation of power.

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Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter (12 November 1615 – 8 December 1691) was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen".

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Royal prerogative

The royal prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege, and immunity recognized in common law (and sometimes in civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy) as belonging to the sovereign, and which have become widely vested in the government.

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Royal prerogative of mercy

In the English and British tradition, the royal prerogative of mercy is one of the historic royal prerogatives of the British monarch, by which they can grant pardons (informally known as a royal pardon) to convicted persons.

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Rye House Plot

The Rye House Plot of 1683 was a plan to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother (and heir to the throne) James, Duke of York.

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Saint George

Saint George (Geṓrgios;Geʽez: ጊዮርጊስ, Geōrgius, გიორგი, Ge'orgiyos, Mar Giwargis, translit died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity.

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Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13 –18) in Shrewsbury.

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Sir Job Charlton, 1st Baronet

Sir Job Charlton, 1st Baronet KS (c. 1614 – 26 May 1697) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.

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Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn

Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1634 – 11 July 1700) was a Welsh lawyer and politician. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn are people educated at Shrewsbury School.

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Slavery

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.

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St Dunstan's, Stepney

St Dunstan's, Stepney, is an Anglican church which stands on a site that has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years.

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St Mary Aldermanbury

St Mary Aldermanbury was a parish church in the City of London first mentioned in 1181 and destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.

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St Paul's School, London

St Paul's School is a selective independent day school (with limited boarding) for boys aged 13–18, founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre site by the Thames in London.

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Stoke d'Abernon

Stoke d'Abernon is a village and former civil parish in the Elmbridge district, in Surrey, England.

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Strategic bombing during World War II

World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military strategy is distinct both from close air support of ground forces and from tactical air power.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Bloody Judge (film)

The Bloody Judge is a 1970 horror film directed by Jesús Franco and written by Enrico Colombo, Jesús Franco, Michael Haller, and Anthony Scott Veitch.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (abbreviation: The Rt Hon. or variations) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Thomas Bloodworth

Sir Thomas Bloodworth, born Blidward, also spelt Bludworth (baptised 13 February 1620 – 12 May 1682), was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679.

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Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton

Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton, PC (August 1648 – 12 April 1715) was an English peer and Whig politician. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton are Lord-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire and Members of the Privy Council of England.

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Titus Oates

Titus Oates (15 September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705) was an English priest who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and Titus Oates are people associated with the Popish Plot.

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Tower of London

The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England.

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Town of Ramsgate

The Town of Ramsgate public house is located at the centre of the ancient hamlet of Wapping in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Georgia School of Law

The University of Georgia School of Law (Georgia Law) is the law school of the University of Georgia, a public research university in Athens, Georgia.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Wapping

Wapping is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London, England.

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Welsh people

The Welsh (Cymry) are an ethnic group native to Wales.

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Wem

Wem is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, north of Shrewsbury and south of Whitchurch.

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West Country

The West Country (An Tir West) is a loosely defined area within southwest England, usually taken to include the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Bristol, with some considering it to extend to all or parts of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire.

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Westminster School

Westminster School is a public school in Westminster, London, England, in the precincts of Westminster Abbey.

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William Dolben (judge)

Sir William Dolben KS KC (c. 1627 – 25 January 1694) was an English judge who sat as a Justice of the King's Bench.

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William III of England

William III (William Henry;; 4 November 16508 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.

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William Russell, Lord Russell

William Russell, Lord Russell (29 September 163921 July 1683) was an English Country Party politician and nobleman. George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys and William Russell, Lord Russell are Members of the Privy Council of England, people of the Rye House Plot and Prisoners in the Tower of London.

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Winchester

Winchester is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.

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Wrexham

Wrexham (Wrecsam) is a city and the administrative centre of Wrexham County Borough in Wales.

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References

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Also known as Chief Justice Jeffreys, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem PC, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, PC, George Jeffries, George Jeffrys, Hanging Judge Jeffreys, Jeffreys Wem, Jeffreys of Wem, Judge George Jeffreys, Judge Jefferies, Judge Jeffreys, Judge Jeffries, Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys, Lord Jeffreys, The Bloody Judge.

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Burials at the Church of St Peter ad Vincula

Common Serjeants of London

Lord-Lieutenants of Buckinghamshire

Lord-Lieutenants of Shropshire

Monmouth Rebellion

Peers of England created by James II

People associated with the Popish Plot

People from Wem

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