See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
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
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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
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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
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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
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:officers by his information
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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)
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Danger-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
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
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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
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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
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The barrister was, tried and executed for the See also:murder
.
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