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Facts

Date 1685
Location United Kingdom • England
Context Monmouth’s Rebellion

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George Jeffreys, detail of an oil painting attributed to H. Claret; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
English judge