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"In The Atterbury Plot Eveline Cruickshanks and Howard Erskine-Hill elucidate the different stages of the attempt to restore the Stuarts from 1720 to 1723 directed by Bishop Atterbury, and look at the reasons why a High Anglican such as Atterbury saw the restoration of the Catholic Stuarts as the means of saving Britain." This book unravels for the first time the scale and international dimension of a plot that posed the most serious challenge to the Hanoverian regime before the Forty-five rebellion.
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Atterbury Plot

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"In The Atterbury Plot Eveline Cruickshanks and Howard Erskine-Hill elucidate the different stages of the attempt to restore the Stuarts from 1720 to 1723 directed by Bishop Atterbury, and look at the reasons why a High Anglican such as Atterbury saw the restoration of the Catholic Stuarts as the means of saving Britain." This book unravels for the first time the scale and international dimension of a plot that posed the most serious challenge to the Hanoverian regime before the Forty-five rebellion.
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"[A]n important and exciting book." —Alan Hobson, Open University
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780230559660
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 8/18/2004
  • Series: Studies in Modern History
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 3 MB

Meet the Author


Eveline Cruikshanks 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 is 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.
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Table of Contents

Introduction : continuous conspiracy 2
1 John Law and the first phase of the Atterbury Plot 23
2 A Jacobite opportunity : the South Sea Crisis and the possibility of a constitutional restoration 56
3 A call to arms 91
4 Walpole and the 'horrid conspiracy' 124
5 The military and naval resources of the Jacobites 132
6 The arrests 153
7 The case of Christopher Layer 171
8 The trials of John Plunkett and George Kelly 184
9 The trial of Bishop Atterbury 199
10 The aftermath 224
App. A 'Considerations on the nature of oaths at present' 244
App. B 'A state of England' (RASP 65/16) 246
App. C 'Loyal gentlemen in the county of Norfolk (RASP 65/10) 255
App. D Rep. BY 18 258
App. E The 'intercepted' letters 259
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