James Scott, duke of Monmouth, may have been more deeply implicated, but he was pardoned and just excluded from the royal court.
The victims were to be killed on the road between London and Newmarket, but they failed to make the journey on the expected day. Many of the conspirators escaped, but the plot was used by the government as an excuse to arrest several Whig leaders, notably Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney, who were executed for treason. James Scott, duke of Monmouth, may have been more deeply implicated, but he was pardoned and just excluded from the royal court. FTP, identify this conspiracy organized in 1683 for the assassination of King Charles II and his brother the future James II, which is named for a building in Hertfordshire near which the murder was to have occured.
The victims were to be killed on the road between London and Newmarket, but they failed to make the journey on the expected day.
the Rye House Plot