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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Sir Simon de Burley
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Richard Wyche, Vicar of Deptford
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Thomas Cromwell
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War dead, WW1
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John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester
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1 memorial
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