Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage of Rocksavage - Thomas Savage was NOT beheaded

The bio lists that Thomas Savage was beheaded in 1635. That is NOT the case; it is likely a confusion with one John Savage, who was executed for his role in the Babington Plot of 1586, which is coincidentally close to the same year in which Thomas Savage was born. There is no clear record that John Savage was related to Thomas Savage.
John Savage was not beheaded either; he was hung (although the rope broke and they drew and quartered him while he was still alive).
Thomas Savage is recorded to have died from "running gout" at his home in Tower Hill, without the slightest scandal.
Thomas Savage's *grandson*, also named Thomas Savage (1628 – 1694) was himself implicated in the Popish Plot (a hoaxed plot against Charles II), but the evidence against him was so weak that he was neither arrested nor charged.

See "Savage Fortune: An Aristocratic Family in the Early Seventeenth Century" by Boothman & Parker; Suffolk Records Society; pages 69-74.