Josiah Keeling Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Josiah Keeling NPG D30677

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Robert White, published by William Richardson

Keeling was a Baptist who joined the Rye House Plot in the hope that it would bring about an end to the persecution of religious dissenters. He turned informer, ostensibly overcome by the sin of the conspiracy, but also mindful of the rewards that would follow. In the subsequent arrests, many of the plotters turned king's evidence and implicated an increasing number of alleged conspirators. Keeling was granted £500 and a government job but lost his position after the fall of King James... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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