The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate.The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
Other Life Event
Mary Carleton
MC
was committed to Newgate
on a charge of bigamy, having further antagonised the presiding magistrate, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
, by answering back and cracking jokes. Extra charges of theft and of being a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Emma Robinson
The highly involved plot of this novel brought together a number of high-profile historical London figures to surround the hero and heroine of its love-story: the Merry Monarch
himself, his lower-class mistress Nell Gwyn
...
Timeline
17 October 1678: The discovery of the murdered body of Sir...
National or international item
17 October 1678
The discovery of the murdered body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
, a well-liked magistrate, was taken as confirming the rumours of a Popish Plot.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
