'The Funerall of Sr. E.B. Godfree' (Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey) Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
'The Funerall of Sr. E.B. Godfree' (Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey) NPG D23014(l)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
after Francis Barlow
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.
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










