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The Atterbury Plot

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  1. Eveline Cruickshanks
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  2. Howard Erskine-Hill
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-1
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  2. Introduction: Continuous Conspiracy

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    Pages 2-22

  3. John Law and the First Phase of the Atterbury Plot

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    Pages 23-55

  4. A Jacobite Opportunity: The South Sea Crisis and the Possibility of a Constitutional Restoration

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    Pages 56-90

  5. A Call to Arms

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    Pages 91-123

  6. Walpole and the ‘Horrid Conspiracy’

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    Pages 124-131

  7. The Military and Naval Resources of the Jacobites

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    Pages 132-152

  8. The Arrests

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    Pages 153-170

  9. The Case of Christopher Layer

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    Pages 171-183

  10. The Trials of John Plunkett and George Kelly

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    Pages 184-198

  11. The Trial of Bishop Atterbury

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    Pages 199-223

  12. The Aftermath

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    Pages 224-237

  13. Conclusion

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    Pages 238-243

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 244-312
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About this book

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.

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'Eveline Cruickshanks and Howard Erskine-Hill, who have long been working to rescue Jacobitism from the footnote in popular history to which it was long sonsigned, demonstrate what a serious threat the plot posed...A reader today is left with the all-too-familiar feeling of pessimism about the state's ability to manipulate Parliament and disquiet about the way the national will can be thwarted.' - David Twiston Dabies, The Catholic Herald

About the authors

EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS has published Political Untouchables: The Tories and the '45 (1979) and edited Ideology and Conspiracy: Aspects of Jacobitism 1689-1759 (1982), The Jacobite Challenge, with Jeremy Black (1988), By Force or by Default? The Revolution of 1688-89 (1989), The Stuart Court in Exile and the Jacobites, with Edward Corp (1995). Her most recent publications are The Stuart Courts (2000) ed., and for Palgrave Macmillan The Glorious Revolution 1678-1714 (2000). She is a major contributor to the History of Parliament volumes 1660-1754, and has edited most of The House of Commons 1690-1715, published in 2002.

HOWARD ERSKINE-HILL was Professor of Literary History, Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. His publications include Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden, Poetry of Opposition and Revolution: Dryden to Wordsworth and as editor, Alexander Pope: Selected Letters.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Atterbury Plot

  • Authors: Eveline Cruickshanks, Howard Erskine-Hill

  • Series Title: Studies in Modern History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230535701

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-58668-6Published: 18 August 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-39119-6Published: 01 January 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-53570-1Published: 18 August 2004

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 312

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History

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