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9
Ibid.

10
HLJ.

11
Pepys,
Diary
.

12
Burnet,
History of My Own Times
.

13
Samuel Johnson,
Harleian Miscellany of Tracts
.

14
Thomas Rugg,
The Diurnal of Thomas Rugg
.

15
McMains,
The Death of Oliver Cromwell
.

16
James Heath,
The glories and magnificent triumphs of the restitution of King Charles II
, 1662.

17
John Howie,
The Life of the Honourable Archibald Campbell Marquis of Argyle
, Biographia Scoticana.

15 Bloodhounds

1
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
.

2
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial
(hereafter
CSP Col
), vol. XV, 49-51.

3
Ibid.

4
Benjamin Brook, ‘John Davenport’, in
The Lives of the Puritans
, vol. 3.

5
Lemuel A. Welles,
The History of the Regicides in New England
, 1927.

6
William Emerson,
An Historical Sketch of the First Church in Boston
, Boston 1812.

7
Samuel Knapp, ed.,
Library of American History
or The Hutchinson Papers, British Library.

8
CSP Col
, vol. XV, 82.

9
John Beresford,
The Godfather of Downing Street, R
. Cobden-Sanderson, 1925.

10
Alan Marshall,
Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II
, 1994.

11
R. J. Minney, ‘No. 10 Downing Street, a house in history’, 1963, quoting a contemporary manuscript.

12
G. Downing, letter to Thurloe, 19 August 1659, Thurloe,
State Papers
VII.

13
Downing, correspondence between Howard and the Marquis of
Ormond, March-April 1660, in ‘A collection of original letters and papers concerning the affairs of England 1641–1660 by Thomas
Carte’, 1739.

14
Letter from Downing to the Earl of Clarendon, 6–16 June 1661. Lister,
Life of Clarendon
, vol. III.

15
S. R. Gardiner,
History of the Great Civil War
.

16
C. V. Wedgwood,
The Trial of Charles I
.

17
Letters from Downing to the Earl of Clarendon, June, July 1661. Lister,
Life of Clarendon
.

18
Ibid.

19
Ralph C. Catterail, ‘Sir George Downing and the Regicides’,
American Historical Review
, January 1913.

16 On the Word of a King

1
House of Commons Proceedings, vol. 1, 20 November 1661.

2
George Downing to the Earl of Clarendon, 9 December 1661.

3
Pepys,
Diary
, 27 January 1662.

4
HLJ
, 5 September 1660.

5
HLJ
, 8 September 1660.

6
CSP. Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, vol. 33, 1661–4.

7
The Journal of William Schellincks’ Travels in England 1661–3
, ed. Exwood and Lehmann, 1993.

8
Mark Noble,
Lives of the English Regicides
.

9
Pepys,
Diary
, 14 June 1666.

10
James Aikman,
Annals of the Persecution in Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution
.

11
The Crimes and Treason of Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston
, 1663.

12
Colonial State Papers, Domestic
(hereafter
CSP Dom
), 15–17 December 1662.

13
Marshall,
Intelligence and Espionage
.

14
CSP Dom
, vol. LXV, 12, 24 January 1663.

15
Ibid.

16
Burnet,
History of My Own Times
.

17
Ibid.

18
Aikman,
Annals
.

17 The Tightening Net

1
For a glimpse of Elizabeth Ludlow in action in 1660 when her husband was in danger of being ‘called in’ and imprisoned,
see his
Memoirs
, ed. Firth, vol. 2.

2
Ibid.

3
Mercurius Politicus
, 3–10 September 1660.

4
Ludlow,
Memoirs
.

5
Ibid.

6
Clarendon,
State Papers
.

7
Unfortunately, we have no corroborating evidence for this plot. The sole source is Ludlow’s heavily rewritten and edited
diary as it appeared in 1698.

8
Ludlow,
Memoirs
.

9
DNB
.

10
Ibid.

11
The Apology of Algernon Sidney
, 1763.

12
Edmund Ludlow,
A Voyce from the Watchtower
, Bodleian MS, quoted in Jonathan Scott,
Algernon Sidney and the English Republic, 1623–1677
, 1988.

13
Algernon Sidney,
Court Maxims
, ed. H. W. Blom, E. H. Mulier, R. J. Janse, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

14
Blair Worden, ed, Edmund Ludlow,
A Voyce From the Watchtower
, 1978, and Sidney,
Court Maxims
.

15
Letter from William Cawley to J. H. Hummel, 26 November 1663.

16
Ludlow,
Memoirs
.

17
Letter from Riordane, appendix to Ludlow,
Memoirs
, 1894.

18
Ludlow,
Memoirs
.

19
Intercepted letter from the fugitives in Vevey.
CSP Dom
, 1663–4.

20
Ludlow,
Memoirs
.

21
CSP Dom
, vol. LXXXVI. Riordane’s statement is dated 19 December 1663, some weeks after the raid on Vevey, yet sets out what appears
to be a blueprint for the raid. Either the dating is incorrect, or Riordane is simply reporting back and laying out a further
plan, this time to abduct the regicides and take them to England. This seems the most likely conclusion as the raid in November
appeared to be focused solely on Ludlow, while in the report in December, Riordane speaks of the regicides in the plural.

22
CSP Dom
, vol. LXXXVI. 1663.

23
Ludlow,
Memoirs
.

24
Anthony à Wood,
Athenae Oxonienis
, 1721; ed. Bliss, 1813.

25
Ludlow,
Memoirs
; B. O’Cuiv, ‘James Cotter, A seventeenth century agent of the Crown’,
Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
, 1959, vol. 80, no. 2.

26
Marshall,
Intelligence and Espionage
.

27
Col. Papers
, folio XLII, No. 135.

18 Plans to Invade and Hopes Dashed

1
Ludlow,
Voyce
.

2
CSP Dom
, vol. CLXXII, 1666.

3
Ludlow,
Voyce
.

4
Ibid.

5
Ibid.

6
CSP Dom
, vol. CLXXII, 1666.

7
Ibid.

8
R. L. Greaves,
Enemies Under His Feet: Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664–77
, Stanford University Press, 1990.

9
Ludlow,
Memoirs
.

10
A. Boyer,
Memoirs of the Life and Negotiations of Sir W. Temple, 1665–1681
, 1714.

11
A. Sidney,
Discourses Concerning Government
, first published posthumously 1698.

12
The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Algernon Sidney Esq., etc
., London, 1684.

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