Picture No | 10010343 |
Date | 1772 |
Description | Site of Rye House Plot to Assassinate Charles II |
Details |
Site in 1683 of an intended republican assassination of Charles II as he returned from Newmarket to London : the plotters are said to have hidden in the barn (right)
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Source | Sparrow, in Francis Grose, Antiquities of England vol 2 page 246 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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