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Conspiracy Culture in Stuart England - The Mysterious Death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (Hardcover)
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Conspiracy Culture in Stuart England - The Mysterious Death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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The death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey has baffled scholars and
armchair detectives for centuries; this book offers compelling new
evidence and, at last, a solution to the mystery. 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.
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