Henry Nevil Payne
Henry Nevil Payne (died 1710?) was a dramatist and agitator for the
Roman Catholic cause in
Scotland and
England. He wrote ''
The Fatal Jealousy'' (1672), ''
The Morning Ramble'' (1672), and ''The Siege of Constantinople'' (1675). After he finished writing plays, he was heavily involved in the
Montgomery Plot in 1689, and was captured and put to two days torture on 10 December 1690, in the last legal use of "judicial torture" in the United Kingdom. According to the
Earl of Crawford, who supervised the torture and wrote about it to the
Earl of Melville later in the week, Payne was subjected to the
thumbscrews and to
"the boot" but revealed no information. He was finally released in February 1701, and commenced further plotting. His fate is unknown;
Montague Summers's ''The Works of Aphra Behn'' suggests 1710 for his death date, but offers no cite.
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