Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey NPG D18811

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Peter Vanderbank (Vandrebanc), published by Thomas Cheret, after Unknown artist

Magistrate; in 1678 Titus Oates delivered into his hands the tale of a ‘Popish Plot’, and soon after Godfrey was found murdered in a ditch near Hampstead; the murder was blamed on Roman Catholic priests, and anti-Papist feeling in the country reached fever-pitch; three men were hanged for Godfrey’s murder on perjured evidence.

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.