TY - BOOK ID - 149849771 TI - The Strange Death of Edmund Godfrey : Plots and Politics in Restoration London PY - 2013 SN - 0752494740 PB - Stroud : The History Press, DB - UniCat KW - Godfrey, Edmund Berry, Sir, 1621-1678 -- Death and burial. KW - London (England) -- History -- 17th century. KW - London (England) -- Religion -- 17th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149849771 AB - On the evening of 17 October 1678 the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, a Westminster Justice of the Peace, was discovered in a ditch near Primrose Hill. He had been pierced with his own sword and apparently strangled. His death led to a widespread popular hysteria about a 'Popish Plot'. Although a magistrate famous for his fierce rectitude, Godfrey was closely involved with the alternative healer and 'stroker', Valentine Greatrakes and also played a part in many plots and intrigues centred on the uninhibited court of Charles II and Restoration London. His death brought to a head a series ER -