Rye House Plot Rye House Plot The Rye House Plot of 1683 was a plan to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother (and heir to the throne) James, Duke of York. The royal party went from Westminster to Newmarket to see horse races and were expected to make the return journey on 1 April 1683, but because there was a major fire in Newmarket on 22 March (which destroyed half the town), the races were cancelled, and the King and the Duke returned to London early. As a result, the planned attack never took place. Historians vary in their assessment
A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish-Plot A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot is a seventeenth-century English broadside ballad telling the story of the contemporary anti-Catholic scare in England known as the Popish Plot. The narrator of the ballad begins by placing him-/herself firmly on the side of the anti-Catholics by declaring to tell how the Jesuit, Devil, and POPE did agree, Our STATE to destroy, and Religion so old. To murder our KING, A most Horrible Thing! (S)he then goes on to tell the murder of the knight Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a member of