Robert Hubert

Hostile depiction of Hubert from the Pyrotechnica Loyalana, showing him receiving a fire-bomb from a Jesuit labelled "Pa.H." (perhaps for William Harcourt, one of the Jesuits hanged after being accused of engaging in the Popish Plot) with the Tyburn gallows behind them.[1]

Robert Hubert (c. 1640 – 27 October 1666) was a watchmaker[2] from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London.

  1. ^ "print; satirical print; frontispiece | British Museum". The British Museum. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  2. ^ Leasor, James (2001). "A Scapegoat is Hanged". The plague and the fire. House of Stratus. p. 235. ISBN 0-7551-0040-9.