CATO-STREET CONSPIRACY

CATO-STREET CONSPIRACY
   an insignificant, abortive plot, headed by one Thistlewood, to assassinate Castlereagh and other ministers of the crown in 1820; so called from their place of meeting off the Edgeware Road, London.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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