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A75604 The arraignment and conviction of Mervin Lord Audley, Earle of Castlehaven, (who was by 26. peers of the realm found guilty for committing rapine and sodomy) at Westminster, on Monday, April 25. 1631. By vertue of a commission of oyer and terminer, directed to Sir Thomas Coventry, Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England, Lord high Steward for that day, accompanied with the judges. As also the beheading of the said Earle shortly after on Tower Hill. Castlehaven, Mervyn Touchet, Earl of, 1592?-1631. 1643 (1643) Wing A3743; Thomason E84_2; ESTC R20942 7,427 16

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