A Royalist conspiracy centred on Wiltshire was discovered in 1654 by Protectorate intelligence before the plotters could act. The Salisbury area was repeatedly a focus of Royalist activity given its gentry network and relative distance from London. This precursor to the Penruddock rising showed the continuous thread of Royalist conspiracy through the Interregnum.
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