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By E. Cruickshanks, H. Erskine-Hill

ISBN-10: 0230535704

ISBN-13: 9780230535701

ISBN-10: 0333586689

ISBN-13: 9780333586686

Robert Walpole foiled the Atterbury Plot through preventive arrests and keeping these he suspected illegally with no bail or trial. while Parliament met and the Habeas Corpus Act used to be suspended, he used express trials, determined by way of votes alongside occasion strains and reckoning on cast facts, to diminish the Tory occasion, to reunite the Whig social gathering, and to consolidate his carry on strength. wealthy in new fabric, this booklet unravels for the 1st time the size and foreign size of a plot which posed the main critical problem to the Hanoverian regime ahead of the '45 uprising.

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The devout tone and moral restraint of the later years of the Court of Louis XIV was followed by unbridled sexual licence and thirst for experiments of all kinds. Law was never one of the rakes in the Regent’s circle, but the new regime provided him with his opportunity. Rich, respectable and middle-aged (he was 44 in 1715), he had settled down to happy family life and had acquired a reputation for financial probity. 46 He believed that a radical change in handling money was the key to releasing the world’s resources in the service of man, that metallic money was not the same thing as wealth and that it was not even a convenient medium of exchange, whereas paper money was easier to handle and could be given, he thought, a stable value.

As they played a leading part in the various stages of the Atterbury Plot, some account of their careers and background should be given here. Both were leaders of the Tories in the House of Lords, though they were very different in character and outlook. 82 His grandfather, Sir William Wentworth, who was slain fighting for Charles I at Marston Moor in 1644, was the younger brother of the Ist Earl of Strafford, Charles’s minister, who was executed in 1641. His father, Sir William Wentworth, MP for Thirsk, married a daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, treasurer of the household of James, Duke of York.

He had a house, the hôtel de Langlée, in the rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs round the corner, which contained some of the finest furniture in France and a library of 50,000 books for himself and his family. He purchased the hôtel de Nevers nearby, which became the headquarters of the company (and the King’s Library in 1721) for 1 million livres. In addition, he acquired the domaines de Roissy and du Bourget (he seems to have had a liking for the sites of future airports), Tancarville, the marquisat d’Essiat in the Auvergne and Guermande in the Brie, near Paris.

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