2-698-961 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Execution of Tomkins and Challoner', (1897). 19th century depiction of the hanging of Richard Challoner and Nathaniel Tomkins on 5 July 1643. They were implicated in Waller's Plot, an attempt to force an armed rising against Parliament during the English Civil War. They were hanged on Fetter Lane in London. From Old and New London, Volume I, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1897]