Colonel Adrian Scrope (c. 1601 – 17 October 1660) was the twenty seventh of the fifty nine Commissioners who signed the Death Warrant of King Charles I. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross after the restoration of Charles II.
Read more about Adrian Scrope: Early Life, First Civil War, Second English Civil War, Interregnum, Restoration, Family
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