Download or read book Who Killed Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey written by Alfred Marks and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strange Death of Edmund Godfrey written by Alan Marshall and published by The History Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of 17 October 1678 the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, 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 brought 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 became overnight a Protestant martyr and cult figure.
Download or read book The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey written by John Dickson Carr and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conspiracy Culture in Stuart England written by Andrea McKenzie and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold October afternoon in 1678, the Westminster justice of the peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey left his home in Charing Cross and never returned. Within hours of his disappearance, London was abuzz with rumours that the magistrate had been murdered by Catholics in retaliation for his investigation into a supposed 'Popish Plot' against the government. Five days later, speculation morphed into a moral panic after Godfrey's body was discovered in a ditch, impaled on his own sword in an apparent clumsily staged suicide. This book presents an anatomy of a conspiratorial crisis that shook the foundations of late Stuart England, eroding public faith in authority and official sources of information. Speculation about Godfrey's death dovetailed with suspicions about secret diplomacy at the court of Charles II, contributing to the emergence of a partisan press and an oppositional political culture in which the most fantastical claims were not only believable but plausible. Ultimately, conspiracy theories implicating the king's principal minister, his queen and his brother in Godfrey's murder stoked the passions and divisions that would culminate in the Exclusion Crisis, the most serious challenge to the British monarchy since the Civil War.ng the king's principal minister, his queen and his brother in Godfrey's murder stoked the passions and divisions that would culminate in the Exclusion Crisis, the most serious challenge to the British monarchy since the Civil War.ng the king's principal minister, his queen and his brother in Godfrey's murder stoked the passions and divisions that would culminate in the Exclusion Crisis, the most serious challenge to the British monarchy since the Civil War.ng the king's principal minister, his queen and his brother in Godfrey's murder stoked the passions and divisions that would culminate in the Exclusion Crisis, the most serious challenge to the British monarchy since the Civil War.
Download or read book Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II 1660 1685 written by Alan Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced portrait of the dark byways of Restoration politics.
Download or read book England Under the Stuarts written by George Macaulay Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Month written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selected Works of Andrew Lang written by Andrew Lang and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 18996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson. It was later that the ballads of Europe, from the Faroes to Modern Greece, were compared with our own, with EuropeanMärchen, or children’s tales, and with the popular songs, dances, and traditions of classical and savage peoples. The results of this more recent comparison may be briefly stated. Poetry begins, as Aristotle says, in improvisation. Every man is his own poet, and, in moments of stronge motion, expresses himself in song. A typical example is the Song of Lamech in Genesis—“I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt.” Instances perpetually occur in the Sagas: Grettir, Egil, Skarphedin, are always singing. In Kidnapped, Mr. Stevenson introduces “The Song of the Sword of Alan,” a fine example of Celtic practice: words and air are beaten out together, in the heat of victory. In the same way, the women sang improvised dirges, like Helen; lullabies, like the lullaby of Danae in Simonides, and flower songs, as in modern Italy. Every function of life, war, agriculture, the chase, had its appropriate magical and mimetic dance and song, as in Finland, among Red Indians, and among Australian blacks. “The deeds of men” were chanted by heroes, as by Achilles; stories were told in alternate verse and prose; girls, like Homer’s Nausicaa, accompanied dance and ball play, priests and medicine-men accompanied rites and magical ceremonies by songs. These practices are world-wide, and world-old. The thoroughly popular songs, thus evolved, became the rude material of a professional class of minstrels, when these arose, as in the heroic age of Greece. A minstrel might be attached to a Court, or a noble; or he might go wandering with song and harp among the people. In either case, this class of men developed more regular and ample measures. They evolved the hexameter; the laisse of the Chansons de Geste; the strange technicalities of Scandinavian poetry; the metres of Vedic hymns; the choral odes of Greece. The narrative popular chant became in their hands the Epic, or the mediaeval rhymed romance. The metre of improvised verse changed into the artistic lyric. These lyric forms were fixed, in many cases, by the art of writing. But poetry did not remain solely in professional and literary hands. The mediaeval minstrels and jongleurs (who may best be studied in Léon Gautier’s Introduction to his Epopées Françaises) sang in Court and Camp. The poorer, less regular brethren of the art, harped and played conjuring tricks, in farm and grange, or at street corners. The foreign newer metres took the place of the old alliterative English verse. But unprofessional men and women did not cease to make and sing.
Download or read book The Valet s Tragedy written by Andrew Lang and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1903 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical mysteries including the case of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey.
Download or read book The Diary of John Evelyn written by John Evelyn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-volume 1906 edition of the memoirs and diary of Stuart writer John Evelyn, up to his death in 1706.
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Download or read book Who was the Man in the Iron Mask written by Hugh Ross Williamson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on a broad spectrum of tantalizing historical mysteries, answering questions, re-evaluating the evidence, and drawing on the latest research to offer provocative questions about Charles I's executioner, the true identity of the Man in the Iron Mask, the real father of Elizabeth I, and more. Original.
Download or read book THE VALETS TRAGEDY AND OTHER STUDIES written by ANDREW LANG and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE VALET'S TRAGEDY AND OTHER STUDIES by ANDREW LANG is a gripping collection of tales that delve into historical mysteries and intriguing events. From the unexplained disappearance of a valet to the inexplicable occurrences in grand manor houses, Lang provides a fascinating study of each enigma. Lang's narratives strike a perfect balance between scholarly examination and enthralling storytelling, drawing readers into the heart of each mystery. Embark on a journey of historical intrigue with THE VALET'S TRAGEDY AND OTHER STUDIES. Get your copy today!
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Download or read book Murder and Mayhem in North London written by Geoffrey Howse and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Howse delves into the his crime files covering 200 years of the area's darkest past. Events covered include long forgotten cases that made the headlines in their day as well as others more famous: Britain's first railway murder, the first criminal to be caught via wireless telegraphy and the anarchists who left a trail of murder and mayhem following a raid on a Tottenham factory. There are many other cases to appeal to anyone with an interest in the local and social history of North London.
Download or read book A Candid History of the Jesuits written by Joseph McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
