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Document ReferencePw2 Hy 343
TitleLetter from Thomas Parsons; 1689
Date1689
Extent1 f
LevelItem/file
Content DescriptionDiscusses 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.

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Termpolitics, rumours
crimes, high treason
conspiracies and plots, Rye House Plot 1682
religious affairs, anti-Catholicism

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Persons
CodePersonNameDates of existence
NA29066Booth; Henry (1652-1694); 1st Earl of Warrington; creat. 1690; succ. 2nd Baron Delamer of Dunham 16841652-1694
NA29067Parsons; Thomas (fl 1689)fl 1689
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