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The Atterbury Plot
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Continuous Conspiracy
- 1 John Law and the First Phase of the Atterbury Plot
- 2 A Jacobite Opportunity: The South Sea Crisis and the Possibility of a Constitutional Restoration
- 3 A Call to Arms
- 4 Walpole and the 'Horrid Conspiracy'
- 5 The Military and Naval Resources of the Jacobites
- 6 The Arrests
- 7 The Case of Christopher Layer
- 8 The Trials of John Plunkett and George Kelly
- 9 The Trial of Bishop Atterbury
- 10 The Aftermath
- Conclusion
- Appendix A: 'Considerations on the Nature of Oaths at present'
- Appendix B: 'A State of England' (RASP 65/16)
- Appendix C: 'Loyal Gentlemen in the County of Norfolk' (RASP 65/10)
- Appendix D: Rep. BY 18
- Appendix E: The 'Intercepted' Letters
- Notes and References
- Notes on Sources
- Index