Bandbox Plot
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The Bandbox Plot of 4 November 1712, was an attempt on the life of
Lord Treasurer, which was foiled by the perspicacity of Jonathan Swift (author of Gulliver's Travels), who happened to be visiting the Earl of Oxford.[1]
A bandbox was a lightweight hat-box; this particular one had been configured to fire a number of loaded and cocked
Whig
party and threw enormous popular sympathy behind Harley.
The event was widely written about in the
broadsheets of the time; Swift himself wrote about the occurrence in his A Journal to Stella
.
See also
References
- ^ "The Long History of Mail Bombs & Threats". RaySecur - The Standard in Mail Security. 14 January 2021.
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