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2 days ago · Sir Henry Vane the Younger, 1613-1662; Discovering an extraordinary life and legacy | Thursday 4th July | 6:00pm – 7:00pm | £9.50. In 1662 Sir Henry Vane, owner of Raby Castle was executed at Tower Hill, London, described by the newly crowned King Charles II as "too dangerous to let live".
5 days ago · Information that Sir Henry Vane, Junior, corresponds with the Enemy. Countess of Carlisle's Letter opened by some Members of the H. C. Message from the H. C. with an Ordinance about Currants.
5 days ago · "We are commanded, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, to certify your Lordships, that they have nominated and appointed John Earl of Rutland, Sir William Armin Baronet, Sir Henry Vane the Younger, Knight, Thomas Hatcher and Henry Darley, Esquires, Committees and Commissioners of both Houses, to the States and Kingdom of Scotland ...
1 day ago · For the County of Kent, John Bradshaw, one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, Philip Lord Lisle, Algernon Sydney, Sir Henry Vane, Sir Michael Livesey, Sir Thomas Stile, Sir Ralph Honywood, Sir Thomas Walsingham, Ralph Welden, William Say, Colonel Nathanael Rich, John Twisleton, Thomas Blount, William Kenrick, William James, Augustine Skinner, John Dixwel, Thomas St. Nicholas, John Nut ...
2 days ago · Sir Henry Vane, executed for treason in 1662, attempted to read a speech on the gallows which inter alia questioned the legality of his sentence, only to have the sheriff order trumpets to be blown to mask his words, and have the same official tear the paper on which his speech was written out of his hands.
3 days ago · In 1624 the council of the prince of Wales, then lord of the manor, secured the second seat for Sir Henry Vane the elder, an official of the prince's household, and when Vane chose to sit elsewhere Sir Henry Carey, another courtier, was elected.
3 days ago · February 1645: An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the raising and levying of the Monthly Sum of One and Twenty Thousand Pounds, towards the Maintenance of the Scotish Army under the Command of the Ear [l] of Leven, by a Monthly Assessment upon the severa [l] Counties, Cities, and Towns, of the Kingdom ...
