Henry Nevil Payne
Henry Nevil Payne (died 1710?) was a dramatist and agitator for the
Montgomery Plot in 1689, and was captured and put to two days torture on 10 December 1690, in the last legal use of "judicial torture" in the United Kingdom. According to the Earl of Crawford, who supervised the torture and wrote about it to the Earl of Melville later in the week, Payne was subjected to the thumbscrews and to "the boot" but revealed no information.[1] He was finally released in February 1701, and commenced further plotting. His fate is unknown; Montague Summers
's The Works of Aphra Behn suggests 1710 for his death date, but offers no cite.
References
- ^ "Judicial Torture, the Liberties of the Subject and Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1660-1960, by Clare Jackson, in Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900, ed. by T. C. Smout (Oxford University Press and British Academy, 2005) pp.96-97
- Paul Hopkins, ‘Payne, Henry (d. 1705?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2007
- The Fatal Jealousie (1673), by Henry Nevil Payne, edited by Willard Thorp. The Augustan Reprint Society (1948).
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