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		Godfrey refused unless he was informed of the contents of the papers - he was provided with a copy on 28 September, and then took their depositions.
		Godfrey's death sent the nation into panic; not only was his murder taken as proof that all Oates's accusations were true - his name became an anagram: Dy'd by Rome's reveng'd fury.
		He said Godfrey had been followed along the Strand, then lured into Somerset House where he was murdered and his body hidden in a room until the Wednesday, when it was taken by sedan chair to Soho and then by horseback to Primrose Hill.
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	Edmund Berry Godfrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edmund Berry Godfrey was probably born in Sellinge, Kent, as a younger son of Thomas Godfrey, a member of an old Kentish family.
		Godfrey demanded first to know the contents of the papers and when he had received a copy on September 28, took their depositions.
		Godfrey has been supposed to have been concerned that he might be one of the victims of the scare but made no extra security precautions.
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	Edmund Berry Godfrey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Edmund Berry Godfrey was probably born in Sellinge, (A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; the first to be colonized by the Romans) Kent, as a younger son of (additional info and facts about Thomas Godfrey) Thomas Godfrey, a member of an old Kentish family.
		In 1678 Godfrey become involved with the schemes of (English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)) Titus Oates when Oates invented the (additional info and facts about Popish Plot) Popish Plot and begun an anti-Catholic campaign.
		Some claim (The act of killing yourself) suicide, either because Godfrey was in a quandary between Catholics and Anglicans and, due to his contacts to Coleman, possibly under suspicion or just because of his melancholy nature.
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	GODFREY OF VITERBO - LoveToKnow Article on GODFREY OF VITERBO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Godfrey also wrote Memoria secu,lorum, or Liber memonails, a chronicle dedicated to Henry VI., which professes to record the history of the world from the creation until 1185.
		The only part of Godfreys work which is valuable is the Gesta Fniderici I., verses relating events in the emperors career from 1155 to 1180.
		Godfreys works are found in the Monumenta Germaniae hislonica, Band xxii.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GODFREY_OF_VITERBO.htm (444 words)

	SIR EDMUND BERRY GODFREY - LoveToKnow Article on SIR EDMUND BERRY GODFREY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		According to Prance the deed was instigated by some Roman Catholic priests, three of whom witnessed the murder, and was committed in the courtyard of Somerset House, where Godfrey was strangled by Robert Green, Lawrence Hill and Henry Berry, the body being afterwards taken to Hampstead.
		Godfrey was an excellent magistrate, and was very charitable both in public and in private life.
		Godfrey was feared by the Jesuits because he knew, through Oates, that on the 24th of April 1678 a Jesuit congregation had met at the residence of the duke of York to concert plans for the kings murder.
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	Titus Oates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On September 6, 1678 Oates and Tonge approached Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, an Anglican magistrate.
		Edward Coleman was sentenced to death on December 3, 1678 for treason and was hanged to unconsciousness, castrated, disembowelled, quartered, and beheaded in succession.
		On October 12, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey disappeared for five days and then was found dead in Primrose Hill.
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		Edmund Berry Godfrey, a magistrate, took the depositions of several witnesses in connection with the fraudulent claim that there was a Popish plot to murder Charles II.
		After expressing fear for his safety, Godfrey disappeared and a week later was found stabbed and strangled in a field.
		An Episcopal minister and a woman who sang in his parish choir were shot to death in a "lovers' lane," their love letters scattered around their bodies.
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	The Master I.N.: "Fire of London" and "Plague" tankard, 1673–74 (1987.54) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		For his actions, Godfrey was knighted by Charles II and given an immense silver vase of 800 ounces.
		The sides of the tankard are engraved with scenes of the plague and fire, Latin inscriptions describing Godfrey's conduct during the crises and the king's gratitude, and the arms of both men.
		Although all the tankards were made before Godfrey's death, it is likely that they were given to friends in his memory by his brother, and that tankards in stock at a retailer were purchased with funds left in his will for such gifts, as was a common practice.
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		In fact, Godfrey was already 'stifling the plot.' A Government official, he was putting Coleman in a posture to fly, and to burn his papers; had he burned all of them, the plot was effectually stifled.
		Whoever pitched Godfrey's body into the bramble-covered ditch, meant it to be found, for his cane, scabbard, and so on were deliberately left outside of the ditch.
		He said that Godfrey was smothered with a pillow, or two pillows, in a room in Somerset House, for the purpose of securing 'the examinations' that Godfrey had taken.
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	Encyclopedia: Edmund Berry Godfrey
		Kent is a county in England, south-east of London.
		There are several people named Thomas Godfrey: Thomas Godfrey (inventor) was the inventor of the sextant Thomas Godfrey (writer) was an author and poet This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
		Plague is usually understood as a generic term for Bubonic plague, the mortal disease caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis, which is spread by fleas from rats and some species of mice to human beings.
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	GODFREY OF VITERBO (c.... - Online Information article about GODFREY OF VITERBO (c....
		Godfrey also wrote Memoria seculorum, or See also:
		Venice, and of other stirring episodes with which the author was intimately acquainted, and many of which he had witnessed.
		Attached to the Gesta Friderici is the Gesta Heinrici VI., a shorter poem which is often attributed to Godfrey, although W.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GODFREY_OF_VITERBO_c_1120_C_119.html (576 words)

	SIR EDMUND BERRY GODFR... - Online Information article about SIR EDMUND BERRY GODFR...
		Berry, the body being afterwards taken to Hampstead.
		Godfrey was an excellent magistrate, and was very charitable both in public and in private life.
		Godfrey was feared by the Jesuits because he knew, through Oates, that on the 24th of See also:
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	Oates's Plot
		The Jesuit Father Hutchinson (alias Berry) was persuaded to welcome him as a repentant prodigal and Father Strange, the provincial, to give him a trial in the English College at Valladolid.
		Yet, Oates would have forsworn himself to little purpose but for the mysterious death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, the magistrate before whom Oates's depositions had been sworn.
		Godfrey had been a friend to Catholics rather than an enemy, and had made use of the information received from Oates to do them a service: no good could come to them, and no harm to their enemies, by robbing the magistrate of the copy of Oates's deposition which he retained.
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	H-Net Review: Tim Harris on The Strange Death of Edmund Godfrey: Plots and Politics in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Edmund Godfrey was a Westminster Justice of the Peace who was found dead in a ditch near Primrose Hill on the evening of 17 October 1678, after having been missing for several days.
		The inquest, however, revealed that Godfrey had died several days earlier by strangulation, that he was already dead when the sword had passed through him, and that he might even have been beaten prior to death.
		Godfrey also never married (he may have had homosexual leanings, but if he did, he suppressed them), and was a rather grave and gloomy individual given to bouts of depression.
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	Godfrey Family Genealogy Forum (Page 2)
		Godfrey / Kinghorn of Berwickshire,Scotland - Elaine Pera 8/31/04
		Re: Newcomb Godfrey and Lucinda, parents of Solomon and Elijah Godfrey.
		Godfrey's of Batavia-1700's to 1800's to Michigan, new inf.
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	§14. Pepys and the Popish Plot. X. Memoir and Letter Writers. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of ...
		In 1678, the popish plot was invented, and the death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey drove the public mad with alarm, while unprincipled men took the opportunity of compromising their enemies in order to bring about their condemnation on false issues.
		Pepys had enemies who sought to sacrifice him by means, chiefly, of the fictitious evidence of a miscreant named John Scott (calling himself colonel Scott).
		Then, his enemies opened fire upon Pepys himself; and, on 22 May, he and Sir Anthony Deane, his fellow member of parliament for Harwich, were sent to the Tower on a baseless charge.
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	New Catholic Dictionary: Titus Oates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Unfortunately for the Catholics in general and for the Jesuits in particular, at this time Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, the magistrate before whom Oates's depositions had been sworn, died mysteriously, and the Whig Party, under the leadership of Lord Shaftesbury, laid the blame on the Catholics, accusing them of murdering a good Protestant.
		The fact is that Godfrey had been a friend to Catholics, and had made use of the information received from Oates to do them a service.
		Macaulay says: "The capital and the whole nation went mad with hatred and fear." The penal laws were enforced with renewed severity, the city was fortified and patrolled by armed guards, and all the gaols were filled with Papists.
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	The Path of the King - Chapter 10
		It was Sir Edmund Godfrey, and Sir Edmund Godfrey was dead.
		Godfrey was a great man, and Bedloe and Carstairs were the seediest of rogues.
		I was passing through a minute agone and I saw that noble Justice, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, lie dead, and his murderers beside the body.
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	1678 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		September 6 - Titus Oates begins to present allegations of the "Popish Plot", a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate king Charles II of England
		October 17 - British magistrate Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey is found murdered in Primrose Hill, London.
		October 12 - Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b.
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	Godfrey Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
		Elsie GODFREY and Alvin Payne BURNETT - Marlene 5/06/06
		Re: Burton/Joseph Milton Godfrey - Pamela Midyett 5/23/02
		Re: Wanton (Adur) Godfrey, 1800-1886 - Marilyn LeVeque 10/12/03
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	Sir Edmund Godfrey -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Godfrey went into business in London and later became a justice of the peace for the city of Westminster.
		At 11:30 AM on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese mountaineer Tensing Norkay reached the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas.
		The dramatist and poet Thomas Godfrey was a playwright and poet in colonial America.
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		He married, first, Dorothy,daughter and co-heiress of Edmund Laverick of Upwell, Norfolk; secondly, Judith, daughter of Bagnall of London, and had issue five sons and five daughters.
		From 1702 justice of the peace, he died at Bury St. Edmunds 11 August 1767, and was buried at Holm.
		L'Estrange's portrait was painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller in 1684, when he was sixty-eight years old.
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	John Buchan : The Path of the King : Chapter 10. The Marplot
		It was Sir Edmund Godfrey, and Sir Edmund Godfrey was dead.
		Godfrey was a great man, and Bedloe and Carstairs were the seediest of rogues.
		I was passing through a minute agone and I saw that noble Justice, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, lie dead, and his murderers beside the body.
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	Deeds - Walter Babbitt Deed and Town Document Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Berry’s to be held this date; Josiah Seabury, President.
		Warrant for meeting to be held on 12/22/1825; signatures of Benjamin Berry, William Crosby.
		Warrant for a meeting to be held this date (7/2/1835); Article (2) references building sheds on Parish land, Article (3) gives liberty to the town by their committee to build a town house on land of the Parish.
	www.capecod.mass.edu /library/nickerson/deeds.htm (3135 words)

	Primrose Hill and Chalk Farm \| British History Online
		On a monument in the cloister of Westminster Abbey to the memory of a brother of Sir Edmund, the knight is designated as Edmundus Berry Godfrey; but the late Mr.
		Sir Edmund was a rich timber merchant, and lived at the river end of Northumberland Street, in the Strand.
		The nation thus roused to a state of frenzy, thirsted for revenge, and Somerset House, as we have mentioned, then the residence of Queen Catherine of Braganza, consort of Charles II., was fixed upon as the scene of the murder.
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	Georgetown:Sir Robert Southwell Papers
		References to the Duke of York, Titus Oates, Sir George Wakeman, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, Sir Phillippe Lloyd.
		Description: Fair revised copy of letter in folder 10, in French, with notation that the original was sent to Arnauld on 15 January, 1685.
		Godfrey, Sir Edmund Berry reference 1: 10 - 1: 12
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	Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		British scientist Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, on Aug. 28, 1919.
		He served at EMI, Ltd., from 1951 and was the head of medical systems sections between 1972 and 1976, chief staff scientist in 1976–77, and senior staff scientist after 1977.
		He is remembered for his “Hans Breitmann Ballads,” poems that reproduce the dialect and humor of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
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	Particulars of the life of Samuel Pepys (1893) (Pepys' Diary)
		He was totally unconnected with the Roman Catholic party, but his association with the Duke of York was sufficient to mark him as a prey for the men who initiated this “Terror” of the seventeenth century.
		Edmund Berry Godfrey came to his death in October, 1678, and in December Samuel Atkins, Pepys’s clerk, was brought to trial as an accessory to his murder.
		In 1701 he sent Sir Godfrey Kneller to Oxford to paint the portrait, and the University rewarded him with a Latin diploma containing in gorgeous language the expression of thanks for his munificence.
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