“I have been brought hither to suffer death, not for any crime I have…” — James Graham

“I have been brought hither to suffer death, not for any crime I have committed, but for my loyalty to my sovereign.”

Presenting his death as the consequence of political allegiance · Speech before execution

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About James Graham

1612–21 May 1650

James Graham, first Marquess of Montrose, was born in 1612 and died on 21 May 1650. He occupies an unusual place in British literary and political history: a Scottish aristocrat whose short life contained religious revolution, civil war, spectacular military success, exile, defeat, and execution; a Royalist commander…

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