'The following Account concerning the Executioner of King Charles the First was transmitted to the Earle of Berkshire from Carolina and communicated to the Society by the Revd. Mr Charles Lyttelton, July 21 1742.' Fols. 134r-134*r.
Reference code
SAL/10/09/43
Title
'The following Account concerning the Executioner of King Charles the First was transmitted to the Earle of Berkshire from Carolina and communicated to the Society by the Revd. Mr Charles Lyttelton, July 21 1742.' Fols. 134r-134*r.
Date
15 October 1741
22 July 1742
22 July 1742
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Read 22 July 1742: Minute Book IV, fol. 122 (SAL/02/004/112). Also transcribed in ‘Register of Antiquitys’, pp.239-40, 419 (SAL/10/10/040 and SAL/10/10/075).
Letter of G. Pigott, South Carolina, to the Earl of Berkshire, 15 October 1741, concerning a deathbed confession of John Davis, alias John Dixwell, that he had executed Charles I. Followed by an additional note, 16 November 1752, taken from a MS in the hand of the Earl of Leicester [Robert Sydney, 2nd Earl], in the possession of Mr Perry of Penshurst, Kent, giving further suggestions as to the identity of the executioner.
Letter of G. Pigott, South Carolina, to the Earl of Berkshire, 15 October 1741, concerning a deathbed confession of John Davis, alias John Dixwell, that he had executed Charles I. Followed by an additional note, 16 November 1752, taken from a MS in the hand of the Earl of Leicester [Robert Sydney, 2nd Earl], in the possession of Mr Perry of Penshurst, Kent, giving further suggestions as to the identity of the executioner.
Creator
Pigott, George (d 1760), clergyman
Lyttelton, Charles (1714-1768), Bishop of Carlisle, antiquary
Howard, Henry (1686-1757), 11th earl of Berkshire
Lyttelton, Charles (1714-1768), Bishop of Carlisle, antiquary
Howard, Henry (1686-1757), 11th earl of Berkshire