List of People Convicted of Treason - Great Britain

Great Britain

For those before 1 May 1707, see England and Scotland. For those convicted on or after 1 January 1801, see United Kingdom
  • Archibald Cameron of Locheil, for his part in the 1745 Jacobite rising
  • Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, for his part in the 1745 Jacobite rising
  • William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, for supporting the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715
  • Thomas Paine, for publishing anti-British revolutionary literature
  • Charles Radclyffe, for supporting the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715

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