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Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat Was Beheaded for High Treason

April 9, 1747

Scotland

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was beheaded for High Treason

Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat who in 1715 had origninally been a supporter of the House of Hanover, and then in 1745 changed sides and joined Prince Charles Edward, the young Jacobite pretender, a step treacherous in the extreme.