Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chronology of Events
- Dramatis Personae
- Introduction. The Bottomless Pit: Conspiracy Theories and the Death of a Westminster Magistrate
- 1 The Usual Suspects: The Case against the Catholics
- 2 An Inside Job? The Earl of Danby and Other Court Suspects
- 3 ‘The Devil in his Clothes’: Suicide Theories, Then and Now
- 4 ‘Managery … behind the Curtain’? Oppositional Plots and Whig Lords
- 5 ‘Horrible Secrets … not for his Majesty’s Service’: The Evidence of William Lloyd’s Shorthand
- Conclusion A Bipartisan Martyr? In Search of the Real Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2022
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chronology of Events
- Dramatis Personae
- Introduction. The Bottomless Pit: Conspiracy Theories and the Death of a Westminster Magistrate
- 1 The Usual Suspects: The Case against the Catholics
- 2 An Inside Job? The Earl of Danby and Other Court Suspects
- 3 ‘The Devil in his Clothes’: Suicide Theories, Then and Now
- 4 ‘Managery … behind the Curtain’? Oppositional Plots and Whig Lords
- 5 ‘Horrible Secrets … not for his Majesty’s Service’: The Evidence of William Lloyd’s Shorthand
- Conclusion A Bipartisan Martyr? In Search of the Real Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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- Conspiracy Culture in Stuart EnglandThe Mysterious Death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2022