His mysterious
death was supposed to be silent and left behind, in contrary, it caused mayhem
and upheavals shortly after it occurred.
His noble
background opened him the gate to British Parliament, He was very-well educated,
he attended to Westminster School, graduated Christ
Church, Oxford. In September 1666 he received a knighthood.
Despite of being Protestant he had a significant number of his Catholic
counterparts, including the Duke of York, the future king James II.
Unfortunately not every alley he made was a good one, he was pronounced a member of so-called ‘Peyton
Gang’ which was closely associated with Green Ribbon Club. The Club’s members
wanted to force the king Charles II to turn to Catholicism and abandon Protestantism.
Efforts were futile. The plot was simple, meant to shake off the kingdom and set up
the republic, what could be simpler? - Failure,
perhaps. Richard Cromwell unsuccessfully prepared the details. He was crushed
by the government.
In 1678
there were another plans to resign from Monarchy – the Republic according to
modern European standards was the perfect match. For that reasons Godfrey made
allies with Titus Oates, they both invented the Popish Plot. The plans failed,
once again, Godfrey was feeling unavoidable end of his ‘espionage career’- his
feelings were right, he thought he would be arrested, instead, he was assassinated.
The event took place in his place, there was no sigh of a fight or a struggle. It
was presumed that the murder must have been done by someone he knew or befriended
with. There was any robbery done, furthermore, his money and jewelry reminded
intact. The way it was done was brutal
and unprecedented. He was found dead, with his body covered with bruises, his
neck was broken, he was strangled, and impaled by his own
sword.
The theories
why he was murdered, why he was murdered in that particular way multiplied over
the centuries, though, it has never been found why and who. For sure it must
have been a political murder, one of many in Monarch England.
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