Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
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William Greenwood
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Carthusian martyrs
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Sir Harry Vane (the younger)
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John Denley
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William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
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King Charles I
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