Seizures

Seizures is Chapter XV of my biography of Thomas, 5th Baron, 1st Earl, and 1st Marquess of Wharton (1648-1715). It covers the crucial events of 1683, thirteen years before Wharton inherited his father's barony. It shows how the Rye House plot, which dominated the politics of 1683, affected "Tom" Wharton himself and the Whig party, of which he was a prominent member. I have annotated the chapter to provide additional information and to allow specialists in the period to see how I derived the facts. The lists of abbreviations and short titles pertain to the whole book, not merely to this chapter.