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John Felton (died November, 1628) was an English Puritan who stabbed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to death within Portsmouth, because he believed that he harmed too several population. A privy council attempted to have Felton questioned under torture on the rack, but a judges resisted, nem con declaring its utilize to become contrary to the laws of England. He was hanged. Felton's assassination of the Duke was fictionalized around Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers.
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Blessed John Felton Arrested, imprisoned, and tortured for having attached a copy of the papal bull excommunicating the queen to the Bishop of London's door. He died a martyr in 1570. |
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