Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Conventions and on Currency -- Persons and Plots -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: Debates on National Security -- CHAPTER 2: A Trusted Government? -- CHAPTER 3: "A Tool with so Devilish an Edge": Government Officials and Political Informers in the 1690s -- CHAPTER 4: Identity, Honor, and Gender in the Narratives of Informers -- CHAPTER 5: Credit and Credibility in the Worlds of Richard Kingston -- CHAPTER 6: Loyalty and Credibility in the Lancashire "Sham Plot" -- CHAPTER 7: Representation, Politics, and Law in the Assassination Plot -- Notes -- Manuscript Collections Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.