Bibliograph

The Atterbury Plot, by Eveline Cruickshanks, Howard Erskine-Hill

Type

Label

The Atterbury Plot, by Eveline Cruickshanks, Howard Erskine-Hill

Language

eng

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Atterbury Plot

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

312477409

Responsibility statement

by Eveline Cruickshanks, Howard Erskine-Hill

Series statement

Springer

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 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.--, Provided by publisher

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