Edward Ashton (colonel)
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Edward Ashton (colonel)
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Edward Ashton was a royalist colonel in the English army who was executed for being in a plot against Oliver Cromwell. Ashton was deeply implicated in the plot against the Lord Protector set on foot by Ormond and other agents of Charles II in 1658, and for complicity in which Sir Henry Slingsby and John Hewet were executed. Ashton's part was to set fire to the city, throw open all the prisons, and seize all moneys and plate at the goldsmiths', but it was to be 'death for any to touch any man's p
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2023-12-18T00:35:48Z
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