John Bradshaw (criminal)

[1][3][2] Bradshaw petitioned the king for reprieve, and on the 31 July, through the influence of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, it was granted.

He argued that, while "not [...] fit to continue of a college after such an offence", such a "man being young and of great parts and learning" ought to be transported.

[1][3][2] Wood attributes to Bradshaw the political pamphlet The Jesuite Countermin'd, or, An Account of a New Plot (London, 1679), signed "J.

",[4] but modern biographer Stephen Wright considers it unlikely that Bradshaw would have authored "this ultra-loyalist work" and have "shortly become a Quaker, or a Roman Catholic".

[1] Wright notes that neither Quaker nor Catholic denominations have any record of John Bradshaw, and fundamentally "his later career remains a matter for speculation".