Shaftesbury and the Rye House Plot

• Published in: Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury 1621-1683 pp. 233 - 268
• Main Author: Milton, Philip
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2011; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Superb; Roger Morrice; Young Man; TNA; General Insurrection; Denzil Holles; Robert West; Secretaries Of State; Edward III; Osborn Shelves; MS 63057B; John Ayloffe; Exclusion Bill; Rye House Plot; Good Lives; Assassination Plot; William III; Thomas Shepherd; Insurrection Plot; Moor Park; Charles II's England; Lord Shaftesbury; King's Bench Prison

Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury, was a giant on the English political scene of the later seventeenth century. Few episodes in Shaftesbury's career have been quite as controversial as his apparent involvement in the conspiracies that have come to be known as the Rye House Plot....