Marshall, A (1999) The strange death of Edmund Godfrey: plots and politics in Restoration London. Sutton Publishing, Stroud. ISBN 9780750921008
Abstract
On the evening of 17 October 1678 the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godrey, a Westminster Justice of the Peace, was discovered in a ditch near Primrose Hill. He had been pierced with his own sword and apparently strangled. His death lead to a widespread popular hysteria about a "Popish Plot". Although a magistrate famous for his fierce rectitude, Godfrey was closely involved with the alternative healer and "stroker", Valentine Greatrakes and also played a part in many plots and and intrigues centred on the uninhibited court of Charles II and Restoration London. His death brough to a head a series of rumours about Catholic plots to kill Charles II and install his brother, James, Duke of York, on the throne. Identified as the victim of a Jesuit hit-man, Godfrey becaem overnight a Protestant martyr and cult figure.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Note: | Sutton Publishing is an imprint of The History Press |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2014 21:08 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:36 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/3156 |
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