#4 A Peculiar Character of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey

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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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