John Okey. Engraving, 1810.

Date:
Feb.y 10th 1810
Reference:
2015816i
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Colonel John Okey, parliamentarian soldier and one of the army officers charged with overseeing the arrangements for Charles I's execution. Baptist and Congregationalist. Colonel in the New Model Army, 1645. Governor of St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1661 deceptively captured in the Netherlands by Sir George Downing and returned to England for trial and execution for regicide

Publication/Creation

[London] (York House Strand) : Wm. Richardson Jun, Feb.y 10th 1810.

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; platemark 15.2 x 10.5 cm

Lettering

Coll. Okey. Regicide. Executed at Tyburn. 1662. From a scarce print in the collection of Colonel Dowdeswell.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2015816i

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