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    The Atterbury Plot was a conspiracy led by Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, aimed at the restoration of the House of Stuart...
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  • executed for high treason in 1723 for his part in what became known as the Atterbury Plot. Born on 12 November 1683, he was the son of John Layer, a laceman,...
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    ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender in the Atterbury Plot. He was a noted wit and a gifted preacher. He was born at Middleton...
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  • election, word came from France of a Jacobite plot aimed at an imminent coup d'état. Led by Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, Lord North and Grey,...
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  • of Highden, was an English politician who had a part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot of 1721. Goring was born in 1679, fourth son of Captain Henry Goring...
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    an Irish Jacobite who was imprisoned in 1722 for involvement in the Atterbury Plot, but escaped in 1736. Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was imprisoned in...
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    further attempt was planned in 1722, but following the exposure of the Atterbury Plot it came to nothing.[citation needed] In exercise of his pretended position...
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    became known as the Atterbury Plot, to restore the House of Stuart, and his death was one of the factors which brought the Plot to light. The town of...
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  • considering the state of public opinion. Sunderland joined the Tories in the Atterbury Plot, in which the Pretender was to be put on the throne. A rising was planned...
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  • and in 1722 he was in contact with the agents of Francis Atterbury during the Atterbury Plot. In 1722 he was elected as a Tory Member of Parliament for...
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    became known as the Atterbury Plot, to restore the House of Stuart, and his death was one of the factors which brought the Plot to light. Althorp was...
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    attended Trinity College Dublin. In 1722 he was involved in the pro-Stuart Atterbury Plot; he was arrested, forfeited his estates, and was imprisoned in the Tower...
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    former Tory MP Sir Henry Goring, who fled to France after the Jacobite Atterbury Plot had been discovered in August 1722. It quickly became known to the Dutch...
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  • interest and she edited several volumes of essays on the subject. The Atterbury Plot written with the late Professor Howard Erskine-Hill published in 2004...
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    Tower of London from 1715 to 1717 and allegedly involved in the 1722 Atterbury Plot. The erection of Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument in 1720 was another...
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    in the Tower of London for treason, accused of leading the Jacobite "Atterbury Plot" in support of the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart with the aim...
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    the suspicion of the government for playing a part in the Jacobite Atterbury Plot, he was committed to the Tower in 1722, where he remained six months...
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  • Goring, 4th Baronet 1679 1731 (died in exile in France) Conspiracy in Atterbury Plot 1722 Horsham (1707–08 and January–June 1715) and Steyning (1709–1715)...
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  • in the Tower of London for treason, accused of leading the Jacobite "Atterbury Plot" in support of the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart with the aim...
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  • Francis Atterbury. From this time he seems to have led a quiet and inoffensive life, till the clamour was raised about Francis Atterbury's plot to capture...
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  • in the Tower of London for treason, accused of leading the Jacobite "Atterbury Plot" in support of the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart. 17 October...
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  • Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, is arrested in his deanery and confined in the Tower of London, accused of leading the Jacobite "Atterbury Plot" in...
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    General Election and opposed a "loyal address" to George I following the Atterbury Plot. He also served as Mayor of Oswestry in 1728/1729 and of Chester in...
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    Parliament of Great Britain, enacted after the discovery of the Jacobite Atterbury Plot. The Act required landowners to take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy...
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    was known to be a Jacobite. After being arrested for his part in the Atterbury Plot, but released for lack of evidence, North and Grey took service in the...
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    Tories who were backed by Bishop Francis Atterbury, a Jacobite sympathiser and alleged leader of the Atterbury Plot; Carpenter's selection as government candidate...
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  • commission as an admiral of the blue and an English peerage. During the Atterbury Plot, Camocke convinced the King of Sweden to send 12,000 Swedish troops...
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    1722 to sound out English Jacobite leaders in conjunction with the Atterbury Plot. Returning to the Pretender's court in Rome, he was created Earl of...
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    of Great Britain passed in response to the Jacobite risings and the Atterbury Plot. The Taxation Act, with the Oaths Act, is known collectively as the...
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    John Plunket (1664–1738), was an Irish Jacobite, a key player in the Atterbury Plot of the 1720s aimed at restoring the House of Stuart to the throne of...
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