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By Rachel Weil

ISBN-10: 0300171048

ISBN-13: 9780300171044

Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who stumbled on them are on the middle of Rachel Weil's compelling research of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. so much reports of the fantastic Revolution specialise in its motives or long term results, yet Weil as a substitute zeroes in at the early years while the survival of the recent regime was once doubtful. by means of encouraging informers, enforcing loyalty oaths, postponing habeas corpus, and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial approach, the Williamite regime safe itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but additionally placed its personal credibility at risk.

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