A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England
Rachel Weil
Abstract
Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of this study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or long-term effects, but this one instead zeroes in on the early years when the survival of the new regime was in doubt. By encouraging informers, imposing loyalty oaths, suspending habeas corpus, and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial procedure, the Williamite regime protected itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but also put its o ... More
Keywords: Glorious Revolution, informers, treason, Williamite regime, loyalty oaths, habeas corpus
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300171044 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2014 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300171044.001.0001 |
