An article in the Lincoln’s Inn Annual Review 2024 describes the execution in 1683 of William, Lord Russell. Accused of involvement in the Rye House Plot, a plan to ambush Charles II and his brother James, was Russell guilty as charged or (as he is described on a commemorative plaque in the rain shelter) “a lover of constitutional liberty”?
Click here for the digital edition of the Annual Review 2024. The article is on pages 84-85 (44 of 53).
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