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28 June 1541 Execution of Leonard Grey is in 1540-1543 Catherine Howard and Cromwell's Execution.
On 28th June 1541 Leonard Grey 1st Viscount Grane (age 62) was executed at the Tower of London [Map] for having allowed Gerald "Wizard Earl" Fitzgerald 11th Earl of Kildare (age 16), his sister Elizabeth's (age 44) son, to escape capture at Tower of London [Map].
Chronicle of Greyfriars. 28th June 1541. Also the 28th day of June was be-heddyd at Towre hyll lorde Leonard Grey (age 62) markes, and buried within the tower.
Holinshed's Chronicle [1525-1582]. 28th June 1541. The lord Leonard Greie being indicted of certeine points of treason by him committed, as was alledged against him, during the season that he was the kings lieutenant in Ireland, to wit, for deliuering his nephew Girald Fitzgerard brother unto Thomas Fitzgerard before executed, and also for that he caused certeine Irishmen to inuade the lands of the kings friends, whome he fauoured not: on the fiue and twentith of Iune he was arreigned at Westminster in the kings bench, and appointed to be tried by knights, because he was a lord by name, and no lord of the parlement; but he discharged the iurie, and confessed the indictement, whereupon he had iudgement, and on the eight and twentith of Iune being saint Peters euen, he was beheaded at tower hill, where he ended his life verie quietlie and godlie.
Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1541. On St. Peter's eve [28th June 1541] lord Leonard (age 62), uncle of the Marquis of Osceter (age 24) (Dorset) and of the Chancellor's (age 53) wife, was beheaded in front of the Tower [Map]. Hears he was accused of letting his nephew (age 16), the young Earl of Kildare, escape to France and thence to Liege.
