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The Strange Death of Edmund Godfrey : Plots and Politics in Restoration England, Hardback Book

The Strange Death of Edmund Godfrey : Plots and Politics in Restoration England Hardback

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On the evening of 17 October 1678 the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a Westminster Justice of the Peace, was discovered in a ditch near Primrose Hill.

He had been pierced with his own sword and apparently strangled.

His death lead to a widespread popular hysteria about a "Popish Plot".

Although a magistrate famous for his fierce rectitude, Godfrey was closely involved with the alternative healer and "stroker", Valentine Greatrakes and also played a part in many plots and and intrigues centred on the uninhibited court of Charles II and Restoration London.

His death brought to a head a series of rumours about Catholic plots to kill Charles II and install his brother, James, Duke of York, on the throne.

Identified as the victim of a Jesuit hit-man, Godfrey became overnight a Protestant martyr and cult figure.

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