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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This image was originally published as "The Act Direst" in 1774 by J. Johnson.