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Robert Ferguson
British conspirator
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Robert Ferguson (born c. 1637, Aberdeenshire, Scot.—died 1714, London, Eng.) was a Scottish conspirator and pamphleteer known as “the Plotter,” who gave indiscriminate support to the opponents of Charles II and James II and then to the Jacobites against William III. Educated for the Presbyterian ministry, Ferguson went to England in the 1650s and received the living of Godmersham, Kent, only to be ejected in 1662. As a Protestant dissenter of known literary ability, he was later taken up by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, and published in 1680 two notorious pamphlets purporting to demonstrate the legitimacy of ...(100 of 222 words)