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3 unusual facts about High treason


Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos

Dorothy's affair with Parr lasted until 1543, when he began to court her niece, Elizabeth Brooke, who had also been one of Catherine Howard's Maids of Honour up until the Queen's execution for High treason.

Parliament of Devils

The main business of the Parliament was to pass bills of attainder for High treason against the leading Yorkist nobles, following the start of a new stage in the Wars of the Roses and the Battle of Ludford Bridge.

Sándor Szűcs

After months spent in prison, he was sentenced to death for High treason during a secret, pre-arranged trial and later executed.


1861 in the United Kingdom

Criminal law consolidation Acts: The death penalty is limited to murder, embezzlement, piracy, high treason and to acts of arson perpetrated upon docks or ammunition depots; the age of consent is codified as twelve.

Bulmer family

Both Bulmer and Lady Bulmer were convicted of High Treason and were executed on 25 May 1537, he by hanging at Tyburn and she by burning at the stake at Smithfield, London.

College of All Saints, Maidstone

Much of the Cobham family's estate was forfeited to the Crown in 1603 when his grandson, Henry Brooke, the 11th Baron Cobham, was charged with high treason for his part in the Main Plot against James I.

Corruption of Blood Act 1814

The Corruption of Blood Act 1814 (54 Geo. 3 c. 145) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which abolished corruption of blood for all crimes except high treason, petty treason and murder.

Dilston Castle

His brother Charles Radclyffe, also involved in the rebellion, escaped to France, but was (like his brother) attainted of high treason.

Hans Koschnick

He was charged with high treason for having organized a May Day rally and made a speech and was sent to a zuchthaus and then Sachsenhausen concentration camp, before being released "on leave" in 1938.

James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury

Afterwards he was imprisoned in the Tower of London for some twenty-two months, eventually being charged with high treason.

Peter Vowell

Peter Vowell (died 10 July 1654) was a schoolteacher and a Royalist who was found guilty of high treason, for his part in Gerard's conspiracy and hanged.

Robert Moray

After a second Royalist uprising in 1648, while Charles was confined at Carisbrooke Castle, Charles was tried for high treason at Westminster, and executed on 30 January 1649.

Stephen Sayre

On Monday, 23 October, Sayre was arrested on a charge of high treason.

William Snatt

These men had been found guilty of high treason in conspiring to assassinate William III.


see also

Bigod's Rebellion

Robert Aske, gentleman, that was captain in the insurrection of the Northern men; and one Hamerton, esquire, all which persons were indicted of high treason against the King, and that day condemned by a jury of knights and esquires for the same, whereupon they had sentence to be drawn, hanged and quartered, but Ralph Bulmer, the son of John Bulmer, was reprieved and had no sentence.

George Mealmaker

Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, Volume 23 T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.

Horst Sindermann

In March 1935, he again was arrested for attempted high treason, tortured and put in solitary confinement for six years at Waldheim jail.

Joan de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny

On 21 September 1397, Joan's father, the Earl of Arundel, who was also one of the Lords Appellant, was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, on charges of high treason against King Richard II of England.

John Puleston

With Francis Thorpe, he tried John Morris, governor of Pontefract Castle, at York assizes for high treason in August of the same year.

Marian Priests

1 which made it high treason to maintain the authority of the Bishop of Rome (i.e. the Pope), or to refuse the Oath of Supremacy.

Norman Baillie-Stewart

In 1944, Baillie-Stewart had himself sent to Vienna for medical treatment, where he was arrested in 1945 in Altaussee, while wearing "chamois leather shorts, embroidered braces and a forester's jacket" and was sent to Britain to face charges of high treason.

Robert E. Sherwood

He was a great-great-grandson of the former New York State Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet and a great-grandnephew of the Irish nationalist Robert Emmet who was executed for high treason in an abortive rebellion attempt against the British.

Spa Fields riots

Arthur Thistlewood and three other Spencean leaders were arrested and charged with high treason as a result of the riot; James Watson was on trial during June 1817 with Messrs Wetherell and Copley as their defence counsel.

The Eagle Has Landed

John Amery, founding father of the The Legion of St. George, was sentenced to death for high treason by Mr Justice Humphreys in No .1 Court at the Old Bailey in November 1945, and Harvey Preston's comrades of the British Free Corps fared no better.

Viscount Maynard

Sir John Maynard, another son of Sir Henry Maynard, represented Essex in the Long Parliament but was impeached for high treason, expelled from the House of Commons and imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Vladimir of Staritsa

In 1569 accused of high treason by Ivan IV, Vladimir and his children were forced to take poison at Ivan's residence of Alexandrov.

Zabita Khan

Zabita Khan was accused by Mirza Najaf Khan of high treason after allying himself with the Sikhs in order to become the official Mir Bakshi (state treasurer) of the Mughal Empire; his son Abdul Qadir Khan Rohilla was also accused of betrayal.