The Atterbury Plot - Studies in Modern History (Hardback)

E. Cruickshanks (author), H. Erskine-Hill (author)

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Hardback 312 Pages
Published: 18/08/2004

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Synopsis

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.

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333586686
Number of pages: 312
Weight: 540 g
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 21 mm
Edition: 2004 ed.

MEDIA REVIEWS

'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