Excerpt from Robert Ferguson the Plotter, or the Secret of the Rye-House Conspiracy and the Story of a Strange Career Darien Scheme. The son of a Cavalier, he spends two-thirds of his life as a Whig and a N onconformist, and dies a High Churchman and a Jacobite. He narrowly escapes being sent by William of Orange to sufi'er, along with Payne, the tortures that had been prepared for him in other com pany in the days of the Rye Plot; and when one companion after another has gone to a bloody grave, or mounted to high office, he dies an old man in safety and in poverty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.