Robert Ferguson the Plotter, or the Secret of the Rye-House Conspiracy and the Story of a Strange Career (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Darien Scheme. The son of a Cavalier, he spends two-thirds of his life as a Whig and a N onconformist, and dies a High Churchman and a Jacobite. He narrowly escapes being sent by William of Orange to sufi'er, along with Payne, the tortures that had been prepared for him in other com pany in the days of the Rye Plot; and when one companion after another has gone to a bloody grave, or mounted to high office, he dies an old man in safety and in poverty.

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