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People "LMNOP"
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 Monmouth,
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1649- 1685) Claimant to the
English crown, the illegitimate son of Charles II and Lucy Walter. After
James II's accession 1685, Monmouth landed in England at Lyme Regis,
Dorset, claimed the crown, and raised a rebellion, which was crushed at
Sedgemoor in Somerset. He was executed with 320 of his accomplices. Duke
1663.
When James II converted to Catholicism, the Whig opposition attempted
unsuccessfully to secure Monmouth the succession to the crown by the
Exclusion Bill, and having become implicated in a Whig conspiracy, the
Rye House Plot 1683, he fled to Holland.
Quote: "Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell". To his
executioner. |
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