The Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl…

February 1716 CE

The Jacobite leaders James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater and William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure, who had been taken prisoner at the barricades of Preston, are on February 24, 1716, executed for treason at Tower Hill.

The Earl of Nithsdale had escaped from the Tower the day before.

Radclyffe, on the scaffold, expresses regret at having pleaded guilty, and declares his devotion to his Roman Catholic religion and to James III.

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