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The Atterbury Plot (Studies in Modern History)
The Atterbury Plot - Studies in Modern History
Author: Cruickshanks, Howard Erskine-Hill
Robert Walpole foiled the Atterbury Plot by preventive arrests and holding those he suspected illegally without bail or trial. When Parliament met and the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, he used show trials, decided by votes along party lines and depending on forged evidence, to curb the Tory party, to reunite the Whig party, and to cons...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780333586686
ISBN-10: 0333586689
Publication Date: 11/13/2004
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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