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Ambrose Rookwood (Jacobite)

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A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1820. (etc.) - London, Longman 1816-1828
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on 29 April, with Lowick and Cranburn. In a manuscript which he gave to the sheriff at the place of execution, he excused himself. Some
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and Charles Cranburn who was a Jacobite quartermaster, was the first treason trial to use the new system of procedure brought in by the
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Born on 20 September 1664, he was the son of Ambrose Rookwood (1622–1693) and Elizabeth Caldwell of
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was found against Rookwood at the Middlesex county sessions. He was brought before the
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enlisted his services in the plot to kidnap or assassinate William III. In February
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People executed under the Stuarts for treason against England
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conspirator. He entered the army, in which he rose to be
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English Jacobite soldier and assassination conspirator
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Index

Jacobite
assassination plot of 1696
William III of Great Britain
Dunton, Essex
Ambrose Rookwood
Gunpowder Plot
brigadier
James II
House of Stuart
Sir George Barclay
Thomas Prendergast
Newgate Prison
high treason
King's Bench
Robert Lowick
Treason Act 1695
defense counsel
Sir Bartholomew Shower
Constantine Phipps
George Porter
Tyburn




Lee, Sidney
"Rookwood, Ambrose" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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