Thomas Dangerfield
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Thomas Dangerfield was an English conspirator, who became one of the principal informers in the Popish Plot. His violent death at the hands of the barrister Robert Francis was clearly a homicide, alth
The pillorying and the whipping of Thomas Dangerfield, June 1685
Elizabeth Cellier
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Elizabeth Cellier, commonly known as the "Popish Midwife", was a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 for her alleged part in the "Meal-Tub Plot
Thomas Dangerfield
…Mealtub Plot, from the place where the incriminating documents were hidden at his suggestion, and found by the King's officers by his information. Mrs Elizabeth Cellier, in whose house the meal tub was found, was a well-known Roman Catholic midwife and almoner to Elizabeth Herbert, Marchioness of Powis. She had rescued…
Front page of the pamphlet Malice Defeated, published in 1680 by Elizabeth Cellier to defend her reputation from the charge of treason on which she had just been acquitted