1685 Assassination King Charles II 1ed England Rye House Plot 2in1 Thomas Sprat

1685 Assassination King Charles II 1^ed England Rye House Plot 2in1 Thomas Sprat

A first-hand account of the plot to assassinate King Charles II!

King Charles I of England was executed following the English Civil War, part of a conspiracy that led to the English throne being vacated in favor of the Council of State. The trial of King Charles resulted in numerous reports describing the events of the arrest, trial, and ultimate execution of the king. One such document was Thomas Sprat’s first-hand account of the plot.

Sprat was involved in what has become known as the most controversial conspiracy of the 17^th-century, the Rye House Plot – a plan to assassinate King Charles II and his brother James II. This book includes two works, and the two were intended to be published together. According to Lowndes,

“This [work] is always considered a discreditable production, and the author himself completely destroyed all its pretensions to authenticity; for in letters which he wrote after the Revolution, he admits that James II altered the papers in divers passages, and then caused them to be printed.”

Item number: #26359

Price: $795

NALSON, John

A true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late King, his present majesty, and the government: as it was order’d to be pubd by his late majesty

‘Copies of the Informations and Original Papers Relating to the Proof of the Horrid conspiracy against the Late King’

[London] In the Savoy: printed by Thomas Newcomb, 1685. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 parts in 1
  • ‘A True Account and Declaration of…’
    • [6], 167, [1]
  • ‘Copies of the Informations and Original Papers…’
    • [2], 141 (i.e., 143), [1]
    • Includes folding engraving
  • References: Lowndes 2483; ESTC R 218802, R 492938; Wing S 5065a; Wing S 5029a
  • Provenance:
    • Handwritten – Keith Stewart-MacKenzie of Seaforth, 1842
      • Keith Stewart-MacKenzie (1818-1881) was the son of James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie (1784–1843), a Scottish politician and British colonial administrator as British governor of Ceylon (1837-1840), and Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands (1840-1843). Keith Stewart-MacKenzie was also the father of Colonel James Alexander Francis Humberston Stewart-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, (1847–1923), a Scottish soldier who was regarded by many as chief of Clan Mackenzie.
    • Handwritten – William MacKenzie of Muirton, 1842
    • Armorial bookplate – Alexander Udny, 1726
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; secure
  • Size: ~12.75in X 8.25in (32.5cm x 21cm)

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