caa a22 4500 38631487X CHVBK 20180307111602.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3678968 doi S0080440100013177 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3678968 Russell Conrad The First Army Plot of 1641 [Elektronische Daten] [Conrad Russell] ON 11 May 1641, Maurice Wynn reported that ‘some plott or other' had been discovered to the Commons. The vagueness of his reaction seems to have been characteristic of much assessment of the army plot ever since. There is a general sense that there is enough smoke to make it probable that there is some fire, but we are not extremely clear who plotted with whom to do what. This is, in part, because of a very justifiable caution. It is felt that Charles I's plots, like his grandmother's lovers, are capable of growing in the telling, especially when the tellers are people to whom belief in popish conspiracy comes with eagerness distressing to a modern ear. Pym and Hampden's later readiness to exploit such mare's nests as the Beale plot at crucial moments in the debate on the Grand Remonstrance adds further to the wariness with which plot stories from the Long Parliament are treated. Wariness is an entirely justified reaction with any Long Parliament plot, but wariness may stop short of incredulity. Above all, a belief that plots should not be taken on trust is no substitute for an examination of the sources. Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1988 Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 38(1988-12), 85-106 0080-4401 38<85 1988 38 RHT https://doi.org/10.2307/3678968 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3678968 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Russell Conrad NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Cambridge University Press 38(1988-12), 85-106 0080-4401 38<85 1988 38 RHT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge