The Atterbury Plot

by Howard Erskine-Hill, Eveline Cruickshanks, Cruickshanks

Book Overview

In The Atterbury Plot Eveline Cruickshanks and Howard Erskine-Hill elucidate the different stages of the attempt to restore the Stuarts from 1720 to 1723 directed by Bishop Atterbury, and look at the reasons why a High Anglican such as Atterbury saw the restoration of the Catholic Stuarts as the means of saving Britain.
The burst of the South Sea Bubble in 1720 resulted in widespread public discontent and the hope of a constitutional restoration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333586689
• ISBN13: 9780333586686
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"