HOAX By Victor Stater (Hardback) (9780300123807)

The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain  “Stater tells a complex and convoluted story with absolute clarity. . . . As a work of historical scholarship, Hoax is terrific.”—Robert G. Ingram, National Review  “[Stater’s] accounts have the compulsively fascinating quality of a true-crime podcast.”—Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal  In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king.

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