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Escape from the Tower
- When
- 4 August 1716
- Where
- Tower of London
- Part of
- Escape of the Earl of Winton
Seton cut through his cell bars using a small instrument provided by a servant and escaped the Tower of London.
On the night of 4 August 1716, George Seton used a file or watch-spring to cut through the window bars of his cell in the Tower of London. This allowed him to escape from his imprisonment under sentence of death and flee into exile.
Sources
- George Seton, 5th Earl of Winton Wikipedia, revision of 2026-01-16
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