Sir George Booth raised his Royalist-Presbyterian revolt in August 1659, and Welsh Royalist networks attempted to coordinate a simultaneous rising in north Wales and the Marches. Welsh gentry sympathetic to the Restoration met covertly and prepared arms, but news of Booth defeat at Winnington Bridge on 19 August 1659 caused the Welsh conspirators to stand down before committing openly. Several Welsh Royalist gentry were later imprisoned for suspected conspiracy.
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