Death
He was chosen to make an example of, to check Presbyterian agitation. He was finally executed on Tower Hill, 23 August 1651, attended by Simeon Ashe and Edmund Calamy. He was privately buried, 25 August, at St. Lawrence Church. His funeral sermon was preached by Thomas Manton. Robert Wilde wrote a poem The Tragedy of Mr. Christopher Love at Tower Hill (1651).Love condemned himself by refusal to agree not to continue to commit treason against the Republic, but, as true Presyterian, he wanted royalty restored.
Love had five children, one of whom was born after his death.
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