The horrid Popish plot : Roger L'Estrange and the circulation of political discourse in late seventeenth-century London / by Peter Hinds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinds, Peter.

Series:

British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph

A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.

L'Estrange, Roger.

Popish Plot, 1678--Public opinion.

Popish Plot, 1678.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature.

Public opinion.

Great Britain.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 457 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press for The British Academy, 2010.

Contents:

1 '[T]aking up Plots upon Trust: Titus Oates and Roger L'Estrange 19

2 '[W]ill you have your Throats cut ere you will believe?': Popish Plot(s) 70

3 'Tis the Press that has made 'um Mad': Publishing the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis 107

4 'A Popish priest is a certain seducer': Catholics and Anti-Catholicism 140

5 'Hell, and Rome . . . have long been confederate against us': Jesuits and Protestantism 168

6 'The Subduing of a Pestilent Heresy': Edward Coleman's Letters 198

7 'A Matter too hot... to be Handled': The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey 233

8 'A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession': The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis 292

9 'Have a Care of perverted Authorities': Parliament, Partisanship, and the Earl of Shaftesbury 329

10 'After-Birth-Inscriptions': Historical Disputes and the Great Fire of London 361.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780197264430

0197264433

OCLC:

267169999