In English criminal law, attainder was the metaphorical "stain" or "corruption of blood" which arose from being condemned for a serious capital crime...

A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder, writ of attainder, or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group...

The Regicides of Charles I were the people responsible for the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649. The term generally refers to the fifty-nine commissioners...

Jack Cade's Rebellion was a popular revolt in 1450 against the government of England, which took place in the south-east of the country between the months...

Ketch Esq. as "questionable". Russell was exonerated by reversal of his attainder under William III. Russell did not confess; in fact, he pleaded that he...

Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle...

Parliament Parliament of England Long title An Act for reversing the Attainder of Jacob Leister and others. Citation 6 & 7 Will. & Mar. c. 30 Dates Royal...

James II, and in 1685 was one of the principal supporters of the act of attainder against the Duke of Monmouth; but he remained in England when William...

his execution, all of Seymour's property was seized by the Crown. His attainder was reversed by Parliament in 1550, although the property was not returned...

original text related to this article: Lord Digby's speech against the attainder of Strafford However tyrannical Strafford's earlier conduct may have been...

return to England on taking an oath of abjuration. In 1662 the bill of attainder against his father was reversed by Parliament, and he regained the title...

attainder of first and second creations in 1398; attainted 1400) The first, second, and fourth creations lay under attainder from 1400. The attainder...

throne after his own son, justifying the exclusion of Edward IV both by attainder for his treason against the House of Lancaster as well as his alleged...

Attainder of Bishop of Rochester Act 1722 Act of Parliament Parliament of Great Britain Long title An Act to inflict Pains and Penalties on Francis, Lord...

but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant...

Parliament, the Reversing Henry Cornish's Attainder Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 16) was passed reversing the attainder of Cornish. An account of Cornish's trial...

Sir Henry Bond, 2nd Baronet (died 1721) was an English Jacobite. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Bond, 1st Baronet, and succeeded his father in the...

other frauds. Sharington confessed, blaming Seymour, and suffered an attainder, forfeiting his landed estates and being ejected from his seat in parliament...

the King of Spain on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots brought an Act of Attainder against Englefield in 1585. Even then some legal difficulties stood in...

cousin Edward V in 1483 was overlooked because of the argument that the attainder of his father barred Warwick from the succession (although that could...

Francis Stewart, but for the attainder 2nd (or 6th) Earl of Bothwell (c. 1584–1640) Charles Stewart, but for the attainder 3rd (or 7th) Earl of Bothwell...

1715b, Issue 5357, page 1. "Westminster, August 20. ... An act for the Attainder of James Duke of Ormond of High Treason, unless he shall render himself...

000; 1600 - 1692 (attainder) Inoue clan: 50,000; 1692 - 1697 (transfer to Kameyama Domain) Kanemori clan: 38,000; 1697 - 1758 (attainder due to mismanagement)...

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 1599 – 3 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures...

had originally provided that after the death of the Old Pretender, "no attainder for treason shall extend to the disinheriting of any heir, nor to the...

century as the Massachusetts colonial legislature was asked to reverse the attainders of "George Burroughs and others". In January 2016, the University of Virginia...

1703 she and her late husband John Proctor were granted a reversal of attainder by the Massachusetts legislature. Elizabeth was born in 1650 in Lynn,...

Attainder of John Plunket Act 1722 Act of Parliament Parliament of the United Kingdom Long title An Act to inflict Pains and Penalties on John Plunket...

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reversal of attainder for them. The bill read as follows: Province of Massachusetts Bay Anno Regni, Anna Reginae Decimo. An act to remove the attainders of George...