Ambrose Rookwood (Jacobite)

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Ambrose Rookwood (1664โ€“1696) was an English

William III of Great Britain
. He was convicted and executed.

Life

Born on 20 September 1664, he was the son of Ambrose Rookwood (1622โ€“1693) and Elizabeth Caldwell of

James II.[1]

Rookwood remained an adherent of the House of Stuart, and early in 1696 Sir George Barclay enlisted his services in the plot to kidnap or assassinate William III. In February Thomas Prendergast, one of the conspirators, turned king's evidence, and the plot was revealed. On 27 March Rookwood was found in bed in a Jacobite alehouse, and committed to Newgate Prison.[1]

On 7 April a true bill of

Sir Bartholomew Shower and Constantine Phipps. George Porter, one of the principal conspirators, gave evidence against him, and Rookwood was convicted.[1]

Rookwood was executed at Tyburn on 29 April, with Lowick and Cranburn. In a manuscript which he gave to the sheriff at the place of execution, he excused himself.[4] Some Observations on this paper were published in 1696.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Rookwood, Ambrose" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24067. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ISBN 978-0-203-85560-7
    . Retrieved 11 September 2013.
  4. ^ Thomas Bayly Howell; Thomas Jones Howell (1816). 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. Longman. pp. 168โ€“9. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Rookwood, Ambrose". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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