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	Rye House Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Rye House Plot of 1683 was a plan to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother (and heir to the throne) James, Duke of York.
		Rye House, a manor house in Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire, was owned by a well known Republican, Richard Rumbold.
		The plan was to conceal a force of 100 men in the grounds of the house and ambush the King and the Duke on their way back to London from the horse races at Newmarket.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/r/ry/rye_house_plot.html (409 words)

	Rye House Plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1681 the Exclusion Bill was introduced in the House of Commons, an attempt to pass an Act of Parliament excluding James from the succession.
		News of the plot leaked out, and Charles and his supporters were quick to act.
		Historians have suggested the story of the plot may have been largely manufactured by Charles or his supporters to allow the removal of most of his strongest political opponents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rye_House_Plot (422 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Rye House Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rye House Plot RYE HOUSE PLOT [Rye House Plot] 1683, conspiracy to assassinate Charles II of England and his brother James, duke of York (later James II), as they passed by Rumbold's Rye House in Hertfordshire on the road from Newmarket to London.
		Judas-Friars of the Popish Plot: the Catholic perspective on Dryden's The Spanish Fryar.(Critical Essay)
		THE HOME HEATHER LOATHED; A plain red brick house with frayed furniture, a Van Gogh in the lounge, photos of Linda everywhere and a pervading odour of marijuana.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/11274.html (661 words)

	What was the Rye House Plot? in The AnswerBank: History
		A dastardly plot hatched in 1683 to assassinate King Charles II and his brother and heir, the Duke of York (later James II), as they passed by Rye House in Hertfordshire on their way back from Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, to London.
		Rye House was owned by Richard Rumbold, who was implicated with Lord Shaftesbury, the Earl of Essex and the Earl of Bedford.
		Many conspirators escaped, but the plot was used by the government as an excuse to arrest several Whig leaders, notably Lord William Russell (1639-83) and Algernon Sidney.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1183.html (345 words)

	Uppark House - West Sussex
		The house passed through various family lines until in the 1930’s Lady Meade-Fetherstonhaugh found her vocation and began restoring the textiles at Uppark.
		She ensured the house was kept in good condition until in 1954 her husband Admiral Sir Herbert Meade gave the house to the National Trust.
		The future of the house was soon in doubt as one MP called for the house to be bulldozed into the ground and the fields returned to agricultural use.
	home.clara.net /whitea0/visit/uppark/uppark.htm (811 words)

	Rye House Plot - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	RYE HOUSE PLOT (2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Click here for background information, a contemporary primary source of information on the Rye House Plot, and a work by Algernon Sydney, who was executed in 1683.
		When the Rye House plot was discovered, great hopes were entertained at Whitehall that Cornish would appear to have been concerned: but these hopes were disappointed.
		The oppressed Puritans reckoned up, not without a gloomy satisfaction the houses which had been blown down, and the ships which had been cast away, and derived some consolation from thinking that heaven was bearing awful testimony against the iniquity which afflicted the earth.
	rarebooksinjapan.com /religious/RYEHOUSEPLOT2.html (1516 words)

	Hertfordshire Genealogy: Places: The Rye House, Hoddesdon
		In 1443, Sir Andrew Ogard was granted a licence by Henry VI to "impark and fortify the Maner of Rye".
		The gatehouse is all that remains of the house that Ogard built, and is one of the earliest examples in the country of the re-introduction of brick into building.
		The house achieved notoriety through the Rye House plot to murder Charles II and his brother, James Duke of York, on their way back from the races at Newmarket in 1683.
	www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk /data/places/rye-house.htm (284 words)

	plot - definition, meaning, explanations, informations, synonym and antonym for plot from OXID Free Online English ...
		Plot : To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
		Plot : Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
		Plot : In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
	dictionary.oxid.ro /Definition/Plot/index.html (234 words)

	Religious Controversy: RYE HOUSE PLOT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This led to the Rye House attempt to assassinate Charles, though there is speculation that there never really was a plot and the whole episode was concocted by the king and the Tories to throw the Whig party into disarray.
		A large part of the text is given over to details of the exact nature of their supposed involvement in the plot, along with their capture and punishment or successful escape.
		While there clearly was a plot, in some cases - notably those which arose after the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 - there is strong evidence that the plot itself was no more than a pretext and the victims were innocent (see the following page on this site and Macaulay's history, for details).
	rarebooksinjapan.com /religious/RYEHOUSEPLOT.html (801 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Weather \| Day 342
		Among the Whigs who were purged in the aftermath of the Rye House plot was John Locke, the philosopher.
		Even after Shaftesbury was forced into exile when his incessant plotting was uncovered, Monmouth refused to acknowledge his uncle, the Catholic Duke of York, as the legitimate heir to the throne.
		In 1683 the Whigs were undone by the discovery of the Rye House plot.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Millennium/0,2833,-1682,00.html (630 words)

	What to See in England - Rye House, Broxbourne (by Gordon Home)
		Rye House stands close to the banks of the river Lea, and is now perhaps more of a resort than some would wish it to be, for it has been altered from a manor-house into an hotel.
		It was in 1683 the scene of a plot, in Charles II.’s reign, to assassinate the king and his brother the Duke of York, afterwards James II., on their way to London from Newmarket.
		The plot failed from the fact that the house which the king occupied at Newmarket accidentally caught fire, and Charles was obliged to leave Newmarket a week sooner than was expected.
	www.authorama.com /what-to-see-in-england-12.html (540 words)

	Charles II of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Unfortunately for him, the House of Commons failed to view him as a reluctant participant in the scandal, instead believing that he was the author of the policy.
		When the House of Lords seemed ready to impose the punishment of exile—which the House of Commons thought too mild—the impeachment was abandoned, and a bill of attainder introduced.
		Protestant conspirators formulated the Rye House Plot, a plan to murder the King and the Duke of York as they returned to London after horse races in Newmarket.
	charles-ii-of-england.iqnaut.net (3056 words)

	plot - definition by dict.die.net
		Plotting.] To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
		If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
		The prince did plot to be secretly gone.
	dict.die.net /plot (265 words)

	Rye House Plot - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		RYE HOUSE PLOT [Rye House Plot] 1683, conspiracy to assassinate Charles II of England and his brother James, duke of York (later James II), as they passed by Rumbold's Rye House in Hertfordshire on the road from Newmarket to London.
		However, the king did not make the journey on the expected day; the plot, an offshoot of earlier insurrection plots hatched by the 1st earl of Shaftesbury, was revealed.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Rye House Plot" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ryehouse.html (339 words)

	RSPB Walsall Local Group: Rye House Marsh, 3 Feb 2002
		As expected, it was raining sharply as we left Walsall, but eased and finally stopped as we got to the M1.
		Rye House Marsh reserve stands next to Rye House Gatehouse which is all that remains of the original manor house, centre of the "Rye House Plot", where the failed attempt on the lives of King Charles and his brother James was planned.
		Altogether, around 45 different species were seen, with the uundoubted highlight being the Bitterns - for two of the group in particular, as this was their first ever view of this elusive bird.
	www.rspb-walsall.org.uk /trips/2002-02-03.htm (395 words)

	Algernon Sydney - RDP
		He was executed in 1683 for allegedly conspiring in the "Rye House Plot" to kill King Charles II, a crime for which he totally denied involvement.
		Fearful of a "popish plot," the Whigs believed that Charles, with the encouragement of his Catholic brother James, was attempting to re-establish an absolute monarchy.
		The defiant Sidney was arrested on June 26, 1683, for his alleged part in the "Rye House Plot." The prosecution searched his home and found his writings, which he claimed were not intended for publication.
	www.republicandemocracy.us /SydneyHistory.htm (2193 words)

	Rye House Gatehouse: Waterscape.com
		Today, the house is now a Grade I listed building and has retained many of its superb architecture and exceptional early English brickwork.
		It was due to this that the conspiracy is known as the 'Rye House Plot'.
		The house has had a chaotic history and this is illustrated with an exhibition within the Gatehouse.
	www.waterscape.com /servicesdirectory/Rye_House_Gatehouse (250 words)

	Baillie of Jerviswood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Baillie (known as Baillie of Jerviswood; c.1634 – December 24, 1684) was a Scottish conspirator implicated in the Rye House Plot against King Charles II.
		Robert Baillie was the son of George Baillie of St John's Kirk, Lanarkshire, who had bought the estate of Jerviswood in 1636 and of Mellerstain in 1643, under Charles I.
		The same year, Baillie, with some of his friends, went to London and entered into communication with the Duke of Monmouth, Lord Russell, and their party to conspire to bring Monmouth to the throne; and on the discovery of the Rye House Plot, Baillie was arrested.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baillie_of_Jerviswood (437 words)

	TBK - The Leading Facts of English History II Part 14
		It declared Catholics incapable of sitting in either House of Parliament (S382); and from this date they remained shut out from all legislative power and from all civil and corporate offices until 1829, a period of over a century and a half (S573).
		This conspiracy, known as the "Rye-House Plot," had for its object the murder of Charles and his brother James at a place called the Rye House in Hertfordshire, not far from London.
		At the time of the discovery of the Rye-House Plot (S480) a number of Whigs (S479) who were implicated in the conspiracy fled to Holland, where the Duke of Monmouth had gone when banished.
	www.truthbeknown.com /the_leading_facts_of_english_history_ii_14.html (3386 words)

	James II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite the concession, fears of a Catholic monarch persisted, intensified by the failed pregnancies of Charles II's wife, Catherine of Braganza.
		A defrocked Anglican clergyman, Titus Oates, falsely spoke of a "Popish Plot" to kill Charles and put the Duke of York on the Throne.
		The Rye House Plot of 1683, a Protestant conspiracy to assassinate both Charles and the Duke of York, failed utterly; it increased popular sympathy for the King and his brother.
	www.search.com /reference/James_II_of_England (2710 words)

	Lee Valley Park : Rye House Gatehouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Richard Rumbold lived in the house in 1683 and it was he who helped to hatch the Rye House Plot, an unsuccessful conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York.
		An exhibition within the Gatehouse colourfully displays the turbulent history of Rye House and the once beautiful Victorian pleasure park which was created to provide a playground for Londoners.
		The Rye House pub and RSPB Nature Reserve are also close by.
	www.leevalleypark.org.uk /en/fe/transfer.asp?id=76 (310 words)

	Rye House Plot succeeds; King Charles II and James, Duke of York assassinated, 1673! - Alternate History Discussion ...
		Rye House Plot succeeds; King Charles II and James, Duke of York assassinated, 1673!
		There is no fire in Newmarket, the races are not cancelled, and the two British royales are killed by 100 armed conspirators waiting to spring an ambush.
		The Rye House Plot was due to be executed in 1683.
	www.alternatehistory.com /Discussion/showthread.php?p=755862#post755862 (493 words)

	Amazon.com: The X-Files - The Complete Second Season: DVD: David Duchovny,Mitch Pileggi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Plot Outline Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic investigate the strange and unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
		Plot Synopsis: This television series follows the adventures and lives of FBI agents investigating those cases that involve the paranormal or previously unsolved (especially by conventional means).
		The inside DVD case is nothing special and even has some failings with some editions coming with a seventh bonus disc that is just sitting in a slot in a piece of card and falls out easily, bouncing around the box.
	www.amazon.com /X-Files-Complete-Second-Season/dp/B00004TS0N (3430 words)

	AllRefer.com - Rye House Plot (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Rye House Plot (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia
		Rye House Plot, 1683, conspiracy to assassinate Charles II of England and his brother James, duke of York (later James II), as they passed by Rumbold's Rye House in Hertfordshire on the road from Newmarket to London.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Rye House Plot
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/RyeHouse.html (236 words)

	Queen Elizabeth
		Reprinted from a copy in the British Museum, and edited by J. Pollen.
		The fourth is by Thomas Sprat, 1635-1713, âThe Rye-House Plotâ printed in 1684 and 1885 by order of the King.
		It appears that The Rye-House Plot is a ploy to eliminate the King of England.
	www.cimmay.us /elizabeth.htm (469 words)

	Some of the cast of Invitation to a Funeral
		Accused of participation in the Rye House Plot to assasinate Charles and James in 1683, he was exiled abroad.
		Childhood friend of the king and one of his most trusted advisors, he later fell out of favour, though Nell Gwyn remained his friend and often interceded with the king on his behalf.
		By 1678 he was lodging at Nell Gwyn's house.
	www.okima.com /cast (739 words)

	Packers Rye at Local.co.uk
		GIPSA Names Moisture Meter for Beans, Canola, High Oil Corn, Rapeseed, Rye...
		Mixture of gasoline and ethanol derived from fermented agricultural products containing at least 9 percent ethanol.
		I'd put money on a bet that rye is the favorite bread of Packers fans, truck drivers, and every round-faced white person living within scud...
	www.local.co.uk /Rye/Packers (208 words)

	John Locke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Locke was born on August 29, 1632, in a small thatched cottage by the church in Wrington, Somerset, about twelve miles from Bristol.
		In 1647, Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London under the sponsorship of Alexander Popham, a member of Parliament and former commander of the younger Locke's father.
		However, Locke fled to the Netherlands in 1683, under strong suspicion of involvement in the Rye House Plot (though there is little evidence to suggest that he was directly involved in the scheme).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Locke (3010 words)

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