‘The Horrid Popish Plot’: Roger L’Estrange and the Circulation of Political Discourse in Late Seventeenth-Century London
‘The Horrid Popish Plot’: Roger L’Estrange and the Circulation of Political Discourse in Late Seventeenth-Century London
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Abstract
The Popish plot was an alleged Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II and re-introduce the Catholic faith to England. Despite it being a fiction, belief in the plot became widespread and many innocent Catholics were sent to their deaths. Moving away from the focus of recent histories of the plot, which remain predominately in the realms of parliamentary discussion, courts of law and the councils of the King, this volume considers how details of the plot circulated more broadly. It investigates the many media used, primarily print, but also manuscript and word-of-mouth, for instance in books, pamphlets, newspapers, and ballads. The most prolific commentator on the Popish plot was Roger L'Estrange, the press censor during the reigns of Charles II and James II. L'Estrange was interested in the working of the London book trade at this time, and as one who did not believe there was a Popish plot, wrote prolifically in order publicly to cast doubt upon it. L'Estrange's writings provide us with valuable insights into the production, dissemination, and reception of political opinion in this period. Drawing on the insights of literary studies, political history, and the history of the book, reading this volume will further understanding in how belief in such an extraordinary plot took hold amongst so many.
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Front Matter
- Introduction
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1
‘[T]aking up Plots upon Trust’: Titus Oates, Roger L’Estrange, and Popular Polemic
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2
‘[W]ill you have your Throats cut ere you will believe?’: Popish Plot(s)
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‘Tis the Press that has made ‘um Mad’: Publishing the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis
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‘A Popish priest is a certain seducer’: Catholics and Anti-Catholicism
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‘Hell, and Rome…have long been confederate against us’: Jesuits and Protestantism
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‘The Subduing of a Pestilent Heresy’: Edward Coleman’s Letters
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‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’: The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
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‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’: The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
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‘Have a Care of perverted Authorities’: Parliament, Partisanship, and the Earl of Shaftesbury
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‘After-Birth-Inscriptions’: Historical Disputes and the Great Fire of London
- Conclusion
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End Matter
- Appendix 1 Chronology of the main events mentioned in the text between August 1678 and June 1679
- Appendix 2 The Organization of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (1678–85)
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Appendix 3
The Test Acts
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- Appendix 5 The Oath to be sworn by subscribers to the Protestant ‘Association’
- Bibliography
- Index
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