The Farnley Wood Plot was a conspiracy in Yorkshire, England in October 1663. Intended as a major rising to overturn the return to monarchy in 1660, it was undermined by informers, and came to nothing.[1]
The major plotters were Joshua Greathead and Captain Thomas Oates, operating primarily in Farnley, West Yorkshire, but also with links to Gildersome, Morley, West Yorkshire and Leeds. The aim was to capture and overthrow the Royalist strongholds of Leeds city centre. The plot was disbanded on 12 October 1663. Twenty-six men were arrested, imprisoned and executed as traitors, with at least some being hanged, drawn and quartered.[2]
^Also known as the Derwentdale Plot and the Yorkshire Plot.
^Parsons, Edward (1834). Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary, Commercial, Miscellaneous History Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Otley, District Within Ten Miles Leeds, Vol. 1. Leeds UK: Frederick Hobson. p. 60.
The FarnleyWoodPlot was a conspiracy in Yorkshire, England in October 1663. Intended as a major rising to overturn the return to monarchy in 1660, it...
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Hutchinson Alive Pardoned in 1660, but was implicated in the 1663 FarnleyWoodPlot; he was imprisoned in Sandown Castle, Kent where he died on 11 September...
Aveyard apprehended John Fawcet, who was one of those involved in the FarnleyWoodPlot to overturn the return to monarchy in England. In the 1881 Census...
the so-called Muggleswick Plot took place (also referred to as the Derwentdale Plot, and similar to the FarnleyWoodPlot). John Ellrington, a servant...
adopted Fifth Monarchy ideas, and later arrested for his part in the FarnleyWoodPlot. Greaves, Richard L. "Hobson, Paul". Oxford Dictionary of National...
certifying that the fort's defenders fought bravely. October 12 – The FarnleyWoodPlot, a conspiracy in the English county of West Yorkshire to overthrow...
commonly known as the FarnleyWoodPlot, but many of the conspirators came from the Gildersome area. In conjunction with this plot, many people were arrested...
Realm, Volume 5: 1628-80. pp. 226–224. Hopper, Andrew (2002). "The FarnleyWoodPlot and the Memory of the Civil Wars in Yorkshire". The Historical Journal...
certifying that the fort's defenders fought bravely. October 12 – The FarnleyWoodPlot, a conspiracy in the English county of West Yorkshire to overthrow...
1663 — he was executed the following year for involvement in the FarnleyWoodPlot, an intended uprising in Yorkshire against Charles II. Although Thomas's...
London. After the Restoration he was suspected of complicity in the FarnleyWoodPlot, in 1663–64. Salwey married, in 1641, to Anne Waring, the daughter...
of King Charles I. In 1663, he was accused of involvement in the FarnleyWoodPlot, and died in prison. Colonel Sir Francis Thornhagh or Thornhaugh (1617–1648)...
Clayworth, in 1664 he was sentenced for alleged involvement in the FarnleyWoodPlot, he became very ill in prison and had to be rescued by the Duke of...
Gilbert Sheldon enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. October – The FarnleyWoodPlot to overthrow the monarchy. Roger L'Estrange appointed Surveyor of...
Church, accessed 19 December 2021 www.achurchnearyou.com Leeds: Farnley: St Michael, Farnley Romanian Orthodox Parish of Saint Makarios the Great, The Parish...
Otley, in Farnley Lane opened. Otley has a number of primary schools. Otley's first church was built in the early 7th century, made of wood, but was burnt...
previously in Farsley. Benton Park School in Rawdon and the primary school in Farnley were also used for filming. Interiors are primarily filmed at Yorkshire...
newly-weds. This included a map showing 135 plots of an area largely bounded by Cookridge Lane to the east, Moseley Wood Lane to the south, and Cookridge Avenue...
as Bramley, Rodley, Farnley, Armley, Wortley, and Farsley, which is derived from the Anglo-Saxon leah, an open place in the wood. Leeds parish is thought...
and more land sold on which other gentry built houses. Until 1810, Gipton Wood was Gibton Forest separating Leeds from Roundhay Park and a turnpike road...
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