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The Atterbury plot / Eveline Cruickshanks and Howard Erskine-Hill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cruickshanks, Eveline.
- Series:
- Studies in modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Studies in modern history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732.
- Atterbury, Francis.
- Church of England.
- Tory Party (Great Britain).
- Conspiracies--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Conspiracies.
- Church and state--England--History--18th century.
- Church and state.
- Exiles.
- Bishops.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--George I, 1714-1727.
- Great Britain.
- Tory Party (Great Britain)--History--18th century.
- Church of England--Bishops--Biography.
- Politicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Politicians.
- England.
- Exiles--Great Britain--Biography.
- Stuart, House of.
- Jacobites.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 312 pages : portraits ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Summary:
- 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 reunite 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Continuous Conspiracy 2
- Models of revolution 2
- The question of treason 3
- Motives and oaths 4
- Situations and aims 6
- The Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 8
- Continuous conspiracy 9
- Kinds of plot 10
- Dramatis personae 12
- 1 John Law and the First Phase of the Atterbury Plot 23
- The Tories and the Hanoverian succession 23
- The Duke of Ormonde and Atterbury: Proscription of the Tories 24
- The 1715 Rebellion 25
- Atterbury appointed James III's representative in England: The Whigs and the Anglo-French alliance 27
- Was Dubois in the pay of England? 29
- Abandoned by France, the Jacobites turn to Sweden and Spain 30
- John Law's genius 31
- Origins of John Law 32
- Law's System 34
- Law reaches supreme power in France 37
- Law as the friend of James III and the protector of Jacobites 38
- Law's System reaches its zenith 39
- Law's friends 40
- Atterbury looks to the Regent and John Law for assistance 41
- Two Jacobite Lords go to Paris 42
- Strafford, Law and the Regent 48
- Orrery and the Regent 52
- The fall of Law 54
- 2 A Jacobite Opportunity: The South Sea Crisis and the Possibility of a Constitutional Restoration 56
- The South Sea Company 57
- A Whig takeover of the South Sea Company 57
- The 'friends' of the South Sea Bill 58
- The South Sea scheme accepted by Parliament 59
- The South Sea Bubble 60
- The Jacobite response 61
- Lord Carteret appointed secretary of state 63
- Destouches and Chammorel, two well-informed diplomats 63
- The Secret Committee of Inquiry into the South Sea Bubble 64
- Sunderland seeks an alliance with the Tories 65
- The Tories save Sunderland 68
- Cowper's Cabal 69
- The Duke of Wharton 70
- The campaign of Protests in the House of Lords 71
- Lord Orrery's Club 73
- The bill of indemnity 74
- Jacobite London 75
- The last session of the 1715 Parliament 77
- The 1722 election 77
- A brilliant propaganda campaign 80
- 3 A Call to Arms 91
- The birth of the Prince of Wales 91
- The quest for troops 92
- Lord North and Grey 93
- The Earl of Arran 95
- Lord Lansdowne 96
- General Dillon 98
- The Earl of Mar 98
- The Duke of Ormonde 101
- Christopher Layer and John Plunkett 103
- Lord Burlington 108
- James III's financial resources 108
- Robert Knight in Rome 109
- The search for troops 110
- 'The time has now come' 112
- Sir Henry Goring's mission to Paris 112
- Lansdowne's trumpet 114
- Plans in Scotland 115
- The Duke of Orleans asked to intervene 115
- The anti-Jacobite alliance 116
- A change of plans 117
- All set 117
- The Jacobite establishment 118
- Elections and insurrection 119
- Scotland left out 120
- The rising postponed 121
- 4 Walpole and the 'Horrid Conspiracy' 124
- Sunderland's death 124
- Sunderland's papers searched 125
- The Jacobites keep their heads down 126
- Did Lord Mar give information? 127
- England put on alert 129
- Kelly's arrest 130
- Jacobite propaganda 130
- 5 The Military and Naval Resources of the Jacobites 132
- The plot continues 132
- Fundraising 133
- The donations 134
- The quest for funds in London 136
- Layer's lottery 137
- Military commissions 137
- London is the key 138
- Enlisting for James III 139
- The plan to capture London 141
- Jacobite ships and seamen 149
- 6 The Arrests 153
- Walpole strikes 153
- Dennis Kelly 155
- The net spreads wider 156
- Thomas Carte 157
- Philip Neynoe 157
- John Sample 158
- Bishop Atterbury 160
- Walpole's 'evidences' 161
- Christopher Layer 162
- Lord North and Grey 163
- Lord Orrery 163
- Intercepted correspondence 164
- Proceedings in Parliament 165
- The Duke of Norfolk 166
- The tax on Catholics 167
- James III's Declaration 167
- More arrests 168
- The English prisoners 169
- 7 The Case of Christopher Layer 171
- The examinations of Christopher Layer 171
- The trial of Layer 172
- 8 The Trials of John Plunkett and George Kelly 184
- The legal procedure 184
- The trial of John Plunkett 185
- The trial of George Kelly 190
- 9 The Trial of Bishop Atterbury 199
- Atterbury's harsh treatment in the Tower 199
- The bill of pains and penalties against Bishop Atterbury 200
- Atterbury at the Bar of the House of Lords 208
- 10 The Aftermath 224
- Atterbury in exile 224
- Atterbury's retirement 228
- Final fidelities 230
- John Law 233
- Dubois and the Regent 234
- Exile, loyalty and the Stuart cause 235
- Appendix A 'Considerations on the Nature of Oaths at present' 244
- Appendix B 'A State of England' (RASP 65/16) 246
- Appendix C 'Loyal Gentlemen in the County of Norfolk (RASP 65/10) 255
- Appendix D Rep. BY 18 258
- Appendix E The 'Intercepted' Letters 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333586689
- OCLC:
- 54065091
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