A Parliamentary Killing

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Books

Sedgemoor 1685: From Monmouth's invasion to the Bloody Assizes (Spellmount Publishers, 1999) £14.99
An account of the last pitched battle fought on English soil, when attempts by James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and bastard son of Charles II, to seize the throne were crushed by the Royalist army under Lord Faversham.

Restoration London by Liza Picard (Phoenix, 2001) £9.99
Picard offers an enthralling and descriptive picture of 17th-century London.

Eighteenth-century English Society by Douglas Hay and Nicholas Rogers (Oxford Paperbacks, 1997) £12.99
The period from 1688-1820 was marked throughout with riots and rebellions, seditions and strikes, as the lower classes rebelled against the state bias towards the interests of higher social groups.

Dynasty by John Maclead (Sceptre, 2000) £8.99
Tells the often farcical and misfortunate story of the Stuart royal family. It also shows how during their years in power there emerged a new and vigorous religion; a United Kingdom; radical new thoughts and institutions; and the foundations of a modern democracy.

Charles II by Ronald Hutton (Clarendon, 1989) £35
A comprehensive and definitive work that not only covers Charles II's life but also offers insights into society in 17th-century Britain.

 
Websites

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Channel 4 — Time Traveller's Guide to Stuart England
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/
history/guide17/index.html
Survival guide to the filthy, dangerous streets of civil war in 17th-century London and beyond.

BBC History
www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/
stu_james_mon.shtml
Looks at England’s civil war and the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion in 1685. Monmouth was the illegitimate son of Charles II and one-time friend of the murdered Thomas Thynn.

Captain Vratz, John Stern and George Borosky
www.exclassics.org/newgate/ng40.htm
Gives an account of how three foreign men allegedly murdered Thomas Thynn in Pall Mall, on behalf of Count Konigsmark. They were executed on 10 March 1682.

Biography of Thomas Thynn
www.lordbath.co.uk/11_3.htm
Ancestry website of Lord Bath, direct descendant to Thomas Thynn who continues to reside at Longleat.

Cryptology in the 16th and 17th Centuries
http://home.att.net/~tleary/cryptolo.htm
A brief survey of cryptology in Elizabethan and Jacobean times and to the Restoration with reference to previous cipher studies.

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