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The execution of the Popish lord: or, The traytor's downfall Being an account of the beheading of VVilliam Viscount Stafford for high treason: on the 29th. of this instant December, 1680. On a scaffold erected for that purpose, on Tower-hill: with many particulars most remarkable, that happened therein. And of the disposal of his body after execution. Which may be a large warning to all the yet remaining Popish conspirators; how they seek to take away the life of the King, and by seeking to destroy the Protestant religion, have hopes to plant Popery once more in England.

Title:The execution of the Popish lord: or, The traytor's downfall Being an account of the beheading of VVilliam Viscount Stafford for high treason: on the 29th. of this instant December, 1680. On a scaffold erected for that purpose, on Tower-hill: with many particulars most remarkable, that happened therein. And of the disposal of his body after execution. Which may be a large warning to all the yet remaining Popish conspirators; how they seek to take away the life of the King, and by seeking to destroy the Protestant religion, have hopes to plant Popery once more in England.
Note:[London] : Printed for P. Brooksby, at the Golden-Ball in West-Smithfield, [1688]
  
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Subject:Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, 1614-1680 -- Early works to 1800
Subject:Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, 1614-1680 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Subject:Trials (Treason) -- England -- Early works to 1800
Subject:Popish Plot, 1678 -- Early works to 1800
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