Rye House Plot
in English hisimmediate object of which was to assastory, a conspiracy, planned in 1683, the Duke of York (afterward James II.), as sinate Charles II. and his brother, the they returned from the Newmarket races.
This plan was to have been executed on the road to London, near a farm called Rye House, belonging to one of the conspirators named Rumbold; but it was frustrated by the king and his brother happening to return from Newmarket earlier than was expected. The detection of the plot led to the arrest, on a charge of high treason, of Lords William Russell, Essex, and Algernon Sidney, who were in no way connected with it. Essex put an end to his own life in the Tower, while Russell and Sidney were beheaded, as also Lieutenant-Colonel Walcot, one of the real contrivers of the plot.