The Plot Against Pepys
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The Plot Against Pepys

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The Plot Against Pepys

About this book

It is 1679 and England is awash with suspicion. Fear of conspiracy and religious terrorism has provoked panic in politicians and a zealous reaction from the legal system. Everywhere - or so it is feared - Catholic agents are plotting to overthrow the king. Now Samuel Pepys, Secretary of the Admiralty, finds himself in a position few people then or now would have expected - charged with treason.

Imprisoned in the Tower of London and abandoned by the embattled king, Pepys knows that time is running out before his show trial and execution. So, with customary brilliance, he sets to work investigating his mysterious accuser, Colonel John Scott, and uncovers a life riddled with ambition, forgery, treason and - ultimately - murder.

Using rare access to Pepys' own account of the affair, James Long and Ben Long brilliantly evoke a turbulent period in England's history - and tell the forgotten story of the two most dangerous years in the life of the legendary diarist.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780571290987
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Authors’ Note
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Illustration Credits
  9. 1 : Into the Tower
  10. 2 : Toys for King Louis
  11. 3 : A Single Hair
  12. 4 : Gravesend
  13. 5 : Saving Sam Atkins
  14. 6 : The Temper of the House
  15. 7 : Through Pellissary’s Window
  16. 8 : Fat Harry and the Scotsman
  17. 9 : Jobs for the Scotsman
  18. 10 : The Light and Darkness
  19. 11 : Catastrophes
  20. 12 : The Signature
  21. 13 : Scott’s Glory
  22. 14 : New Amsterdam
  23. 15 : The Fallen Man
  24. 16 : Pellissary’s Household
  25. 17 : Wind and Smoke
  26. 18 : The Serpent’s Prudence
  27. 19 : John Joyne’s Journal
  28. 20 : Habeas Corpus
  29. 21 : The Confessions of John James
  30. 22 : The Road to Oxford
  31. 23 : The Leman and Ower
  32. 24 : Gravesend Unravelled
  33. Bibliography and Further Reading
  34. Index
  35. Plates
  36. Copyright