Trial and execution of Viscount Stafford, London Product:Framed picture A doormat seller walking past

A doormat seller walking past the statue of Charles I on horseback at the top of Whitehall near Charing Cross

Both women are wearing high waisted empire line dresses and long gloves

View showing the junction of the Regent's Canal at Paddington

The Argyll Rooms was a fashionable venue for masquerades

St James's Square from the south

Trial and execution of Viscount Stafford, London Product:Framed picture A doormat seller walking pastTrial and execution of Viscount Stafford, London, 1680. Two views; at the top is an interior view of Westminster Hall showing the trial of William Howard, Viscount Stafford. Beneath is an view of his execution on Tower Hill. Regarded as a Catholic martyr, Stafford was implicated in the so called Popish Plot against Charles II in 1678. He was falsely convicted of treason and executed.