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
The Passover Plot The Passover Plot The Passover Plot is a 1965 conspiracy theory book by British biblical scholar Hugh J. Schonfield, who also published a translation of the New Testament with a Jewish perspective. The book was adapted into a film, "The Passover Plot" (1976). Based on his research into the social and religious culture in which Jesus was born, lived and died, and into other literature, including the source documents of the Gospels, Schonfield reached the following conclusions: The culmination of his plan was to be his death (the crucifixion), his resurrection and his reign as the true kingly and priestly