- Title Pages
- For my parents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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Chapter 1 ‘[T]aking up Plots upon Trust’:1 -
Chapter 2 ‘[W]ill you have your Throats cut ere you will believe?’:1 -
Chapter 3 ‘Tis the Press that has made ‘um Mad’:1 -
Chapter 4 ‘A Popish priest is a certain seducer’:1 -
Chapter 5 ‘Hell, and Rome…have long been confederate against us’:1 -
Chapter 6 ‘The Subduing of a Pestilent Heresy’:1 -
Chapter 7 ‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:1 -
Chapter 8 ‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:1 -
Chapter 9 ‘Have a Care of perverted Authorities’:1 -
Chapter 10 ‘After-Birth-Inscriptions’:1 - Conclusion
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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)* -
Appendix 3 The Test Acts* -
Appendix 4 -
Appendix 5 The Oath to be sworn by subscribers to the Protestant ‘Association’* - Bibliography
- Index
‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:1 The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:1 The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
- Chapter:
- (p.233) Chapter 7 ‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:1 The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
- Source:
- ‘The Horrid Popish Plot’
- Author(s):
Peter Hinds
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter discusses the Justice of the Peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, who was another important character in the progress of the Popish Plot. It considers Godfrey's posthumous talismanic presence in anti-Catholic plot discourse. Godfrey is noted to have witnessed Titus Oates' deposition of ‘evidence’ relating to the plot.
Keywords: Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, posthumous presence, Titus Oates, evidence, Justice of the Peace
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- Title Pages
- For my parents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 ‘[T]aking up Plots upon Trust’:1 -
Chapter 2 ‘[W]ill you have your Throats cut ere you will believe?’:1 -
Chapter 3 ‘Tis the Press that has made ‘um Mad’:1 -
Chapter 4 ‘A Popish priest is a certain seducer’:1 -
Chapter 5 ‘Hell, and Rome…have long been confederate against us’:1 -
Chapter 6 ‘The Subduing of a Pestilent Heresy’:1 -
Chapter 7 ‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:1 -
Chapter 8 ‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:1 -
Chapter 9 ‘Have a Care of perverted Authorities’:1 -
Chapter 10 ‘After-Birth-Inscriptions’:1 - Conclusion
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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)* -
Appendix 3 The Test Acts* -
Appendix 4 -
Appendix 5 The Oath to be sworn by subscribers to the Protestant ‘Association’* - Bibliography
- Index
