Trial and execution of Viscount Stafford, London Product:Framed picture St James's Square from the

St James's Square from the south

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

The Argyll Rooms was a fashionable venue for masquerades

c1703 (c1850(

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

Trial and execution of Viscount Stafford, London Product:Framed picture St James's Square from theTrial 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.