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Payne, Henry Nevil, -1710?

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Henry Nevil Payne (?—1710?) was a dramatist and agitator for the Roman Catholic cause in Scotland and England. He wrote The Fatal Jealousie (1673), The Morning Ramble (1673), and The Siege of Constantinople (1675). After he finished writing plays, he was heavily involved in the Montgomery Plot in 1689, and was captured and put to torture on December 10, 1690. (This was the last occasion in which a political prisoner was tortured in Britain.) He was finally released in February 1701, and commenced further plotting. His fate is unknown; Montague Summers's The Works of Aphra Behn suggests 1710 for his death date, but offers no cite.

Reference

The Fatal Jealousie (1673), by Henry Nevil Payne, edited by Willard Thorp. The Augustan Reprint Society (1948).

External links

Works by Henry Nevil Payne at Project Gutenberg (including the above work)

This biographical information was gathered from the Henry_Nevil_Payne page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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The Fatal Jealousie (1673)

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