Rye House Plot
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The Rye House Plot of 1683 was a plan to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother James, Duke of York. The royal party went from Westminster to Newmarket to see horse races and were expe
1793 illustration of Rye House, Hertfordshire
Rye House in an engraving from 1777. The gate across the road signifies the toll payable for use of the route. There were miscellaneous buildings on the large site, to the right of the road. The crenellated brick gatehouse dates from the 15th century.
Account of Rye House, from the official history of the Plot by Thomas Sprat (2nd edition, 1685).
Late 17th-century composite engraving by John Savage, and comprising seven portraits of figures of the Plot all of whom were dead by 1685 (Sir Thomas Armstrong, the Earl of Argyll, the Earl of Essex, Henry Cornish, William Russell, Lord Russell, the Duke of Monmouth, and Algernon Sidney), with one of Edmund Berry Godfrey, whose unexplained death triggered the Popish Plot allegations against Catholics.
Sir Thomas Armstrong was an English Army officer and politician who was executed for treason.
Rye House Plot
…assassination. During the spring of 1683 there were further contacts between the Monmouth cabal and West's group about drafting a manifesto, through Sir Thomas Armstrong in particular, there being disagreements about whether a republican or monarchical constitution should result from revolutionary measures. In May 1683…
An engraving of Armstrong
A True Account of the Apprehending of Sir Thomas Armstrong, printed at London, 1684
Engraving attributed to Jan Luyken depicting the execution of Sir Thomas Armstrong in 1684