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THOMAS DANGERFIELD (c. 1650-1685)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 804 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:DANGERFIELD (c. 1650-1685)  , See also:English conspirator, was See also:born about 165o at See also:Waltham, See also:Essex, the son of a See also:farmer . He began his career by robbing his See also:father, and, after a rambling See also:life, took to coining false See also:money, for which offence and others he was many times imprisoned . False to everyone, he first tried to involve the See also:duke of See also:Monmouth and others by concocting See also:information about a Presbyterian See also:plot against the See also:throne, and this having been proved a See also:lie, he pretended to have discovered a See also:Catholic plot against See also:Charles II . This was known as the " See also:Meal-tub Plot," from the See also:place where the incriminating documents were hidden at his See also:suggestion, and found by the See also:king's See also:officers by his information . Mrs See also:Elizabeth See also:Cellier,—in whose See also:house the tub was,—See also:almoner to the countess of See also:Powis, who had befriended See also:Dangerfield when he posed as a Catholic, was, with her patroness, actually tried for high See also:treason and acquitted (168o) . Danger-See also:field, when examined at the See also:bar of the House of See also:Commons, made other charges against prominent Papists, and attempted to defend his See also:character by See also:publishing, among other See also:pamphlets, Dangerfield's Narrative . This led to his trial for See also:libel, and on the 29th of See also:June 1685 he received See also:sentence to stand in the See also:pillory on two consecutive days, be whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and two days later from Newgate to See also:Tyburn . On his way back he was struck in the See also:eye with a See also:cane by a See also:barrister, See also:Robert See also:Francis, and died shortly afterwards from the See also:blow . The barrister was, tried and executed for the See also:murder .

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