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2 unusual facts about Edmund Berry Godfrey


Edmund Berry Godfrey

The murder of Godfrey is featured as an opening naration in the Paul Thomas Anderson film Magnolia.

Nicholas Postgate

During the panic engineered by Oates, a prominent Protestant magistrate in London, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, was murdered and Oates loudly blamed the Catholics; Sir Edmund's manservant, John Reeves, set out to get his revenge.


William Bedloe

Then in 1678, following the lead of Titus Oates, he gave an account of a supposed Popish Plot to the English government, and his version of the details of the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was rewarded with £500.


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