The Atterbury Plot

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-349-39119-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

Reihe: Studies in Modern History

Robert Walpole foiled the Atterbury Plot by preventive arrests and holding those he suspected illegally without bail or trial. When Parliament met and the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, he used show trials, decided by votes along party lines and depending on forged evidence, to curb the Tory party, to reuinted the Whig party and to consolidate his hold on power. Rich in new material, this book unravels for the first time the scale and international dimension of a plot which posed the most serious challenge to the Hanoverian regime before the '45 rebellion.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erskine-Hill, H.

Cruickshanks, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Continuous Conspiracy John Law and the First Phase of the Atterbury Plot A Jacobite Opportunity: The South Sea Crisis and the Possibility of a Constitutional Restoration A Call to Arms Walpole and the 'Horrid Conspiracy' The Military and Naval Resources of the Jacobites The Arrests The Case of Christopher Layer The Trials of John Plunkett and George Kelly The Trial of Bishop Atterbury The Aftermath Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS has published (1979) and edited (1982), , with Jeremy Black (1988), (1989), , with Edward Corp (1995). Her most recent publications are (2000) ed., and for Palgrave Macmillan (2000). She is a major contributor to the volumes 1660-1754, and has edited most of , published in 2002.

HOWARD ERSKINE-HILL was Professor of Literary History, Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. His publications include and as editor,