Record

Document Reference	Pw2 Hy 343
Title	Letter from Thomas Parsons; 1689
Date	1689
Extent	1 f
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Discusses rumours of a 'great plot' [Rye House Plot] against the government as discovered by Lord Dellamore [later 1st Earl of Warrington]; comments that it is not thought to have been a 'Papist'; refers to rumours that the French are intending to 'power a great army into England'; this document has an anti-Catholic tone. Parts of text missing due to damage to document.
Term	politics, rumours
	crimes, high treason
	conspiracies and plots, Rye House Plot 1682
	religious affairs, anti-Catholicism

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA29066	Booth; Henry (1652-1694); 1st Earl of Warrington; creat. 1690; succ. 2nd Baron Delamer of Dunham 1684	1652-1694
NA29067	Parsons; Thomas (fl 1689)	fl 1689

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