The plan was to spring upon the king while on the road from a horse meet and Newmarket so that his more openly Catholic brother James II might ascend the throne, though the scheme was foiled when the king left early.
Details are sketchy, but it seems that conspirators included The Duke of Monmouth, The Earl of Essex, Algernon Sidney, and Sir Thomas Armstrong. The plan was to spring upon the king while on the road from a horse meet and Newmarket so that his more openly Catholic brother James II might ascend the throne, though the scheme was foiled when the king left early. FTP name this conspiracy named for a dwelling in Hoddeston, Hertfordshire near which the king was to be murdered in 1683.
Details are sketchy, but it seems that conspirators included The Duke of Monmouth, The Earl of Essex, Algernon Sidney, and Sir Thomas Armstrong.
Rye House plot