Edward the Third Seizing Mortimer, illustration appearing in The Political Register, April 1768.
In this dramatic print, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, is captured by the young king Edward III, son of the deposed and slain Edward II, while the queen regent Isabella of France pleads mercy for her paramour. Taken swiftly to the Tower of London, Mortimer was condemned for usurpation of royal power and hanged at Tyburn on 29 November 1330.
British Museum, London.
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