Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
Standard Name: Godfrey, Sir Edmund Berry
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Material Conditions of Writing | Ephelia | The royal licence indicates that the gentlewoman attribution must have been accurate. The date belongs to the height of the plot: that is, the anti-Catholic furore that followed the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey |
Other Life Event | Mary Carleton | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Robinson | The highly involved plot of this novel brought together a number of high-profile historical London figures to surround the hero and heroine of its love-story: the Merry Monarch
himself, his lower-class mistress Nell Gwyn
... |
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17 October 1678: The discovery of the murdered body of Sir...
National or international item
17 October 1678
The discovery of the murdered body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
, a well-liked magistrate, was taken as confirming the rumours of a Popish Plot.
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