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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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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. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Godfrey, Edmund Berry, Sir, 1621-1678 -- Death and burial.
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TRUE CRIME / General.
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Popish Plot, 1678.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Marshall, Alan, 1957- Strange death of Edmund Godfrey. Stroud : Sutton, 1999. 0750921005 (OCoLC)59408820 |
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9780752494746 |
| ISBN |
9780752494746 (e-pub) |
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