John Felton
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John Felton (c. 1595-1628) was an English Puritan who stabbed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to death in Portsmouth. Felton felt that the poor state of the English Navy would not improve while the Duke was alive.
The privy council attempted to have Felton questioned under torture on the rack, but the judges resisted, unanimously declaring its use to be contrary to the laws of England. He was hanged.
Felton's assassination of the Duke was fictionalized in Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers.
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- This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain. Please update as needed.
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- D'Israeli, Isaac. "Felton, the Political Assassin", Curiosities of Literaturede:John Felton