This image was originally published as "The Act Direst" in 1774 by J. Johnson.
Lady Jane Grey, who had briefly been supported as Queen of England, and Lord Guildford Dudley, her husband, were executed in 1554 to remove them as a focus of Protestant resistance to the rule of Queen Mary I of England.
Execution of Lady Jane Grey and Lord Guildford Dudley, from a print by J. Johnson July 1, 1774.
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