43: A little bit of France in Redhill, Reigate’s rogue MPs from history… and more

3031.869 - 3060.707 Peter Stewart

In 1661 he was degraded and sentenced to life imprisonment, the loss of his estate, and to be carried each 27th of January on a sledge with a rope about his neck from the tower to Tyburn. And William Monson, the local MP, died in Fleet Prison and was buried at St Bride's Fleet Street on the 29th of February 1672. So we've gone all the way back over several decades, haven't we?