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DANGERFIELD, THOMAS (c. 1650-1685)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 804 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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