英语词汇“screw plot”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Screw Plot n. an alleged plot to assassinate Queen Anne (1702–14) and members of her government during a thanksgiving service by the removal of some of the iron bolts from the roof timbers of St Paul's Cathedral, so that the roof would fall in during the service. [Although some modern writers ascribe the relevant events to 1708 (probably because Queen Anne did attend a service of thanksgiving in St Paul's in that year), several contemporary documents (including an advertisement in the London Gazette) show that they in fact took place in November 1710. For a summary of what appears to have been the true course of events see:

1773 J. Noorthouck New Hist. London i. xviii. 300 On the 6th of November [1710], the queen came from Hampton court to St. James's palace, where the next day she kept the general thanksgiving for the successes of the last campaign, in the royal chapel. Two days after a remarkable advertisement was published in the London Gazette, signed by Henry St. John, then secretary of state, importing ‘that some evil minded persons having unscrewed and taken away several iron bolts out of the great timbers of the west roof of the cathedral church of St. Paul, her majesty for the better discovery of the offenders was pleased to promise her most gracious pardon and a reward of 50 l. to any person concerned therein, who should discover his accomplices’. This advertisement gave rise to a report of a plot to destroy the queen and the court, by the fall of the roof of St. Paul's on the thanksgiving day, when it was supposed she would have gone thither: and this pretended screw plot as it was called, the tories and their emissaries were ready enough to charge upon the whigs. It is to be observed that the new cathedral was not then quite finished, and it appeared upon inquiry that the missing of these iron pins was owing to the neglect of the workmen, who supposed the timbers were sufficiently fastened without them.

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1710 (title) The Screw-Plot discover'd: or, St. Paul's preserv'd.

1716 J. Addison Free-Holder No. 47 Since his coming to Town, he chanced to look into the Church of St. Paul, about the middle of Sermon-time, where having first examined the Dome, to see if it stood safe, (for the Screw Plot still ran in his Head) he observed, that the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and City-Sword were a part of the Congregation.

1838 C. Mackay Hist. London xv. 352 The ‘Screw Plot’, was, for several weeks, almost the only subject of conversation.

2005 D. Burrows Handel & Eng. Chapel Royal ii. 38 The carelessness of builders who had left out some of the securing screws in the roof of St Paul's was misinterpreted as a ‘screw plot’ to harm the Queen.

单词	screw plot
释义	> as lemmas Screw Plot Screw Plot n. an alleged plot to assassinate Queen Anne (1702–14) and members of her government during a thanksgiving service by the removal of some of the iron bolts from the roof timbers of St Paul's Cathedral, so that the roof would fall in during the service. [Although some modern writers ascribe the relevant events to 1708 (probably because Queen Anne did attend a service of thanksgiving in St Paul's in that year), several contemporary documents (including an advertisement in the London Gazette) show that they in fact took place in November 1710. For a summary of what appears to have been the true course of events see: 1773 J. Noorthouck New Hist. London i. xviii. 300 On the 6th of November [1710], the queen came from Hampton court to St. James's palace, where the next day she kept the general thanksgiving for the successes of the last campaign, in the royal chapel. Two days after a remarkable advertisement was published in the London Gazette, signed by Henry St. John, then secretary of state, importing ‘that some evil minded persons having unscrewed and taken away several iron bolts out of the great timbers of the west roof of the cathedral church of St. Paul, her majesty for the better discovery of the offenders was pleased to promise her most gracious pardon and a reward of 50 l. to any person concerned therein, who should discover his accomplices’. This advertisement gave rise to a report of a plot to destroy the queen and the court, by the fall of the roof of St. Paul's on the thanksgiving day, when it was supposed she would have gone thither: and this pretended screw plot as it was called, the tories and their emissaries were ready enough to charge upon the whigs. It is to be observed that the new cathedral was not then quite finished, and it appeared upon inquiry that the missing of these iron pins was owing to the neglect of the workmen, who supposed the timbers were sufficiently fastened without them. ] ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > a plot > specific plots bye1603 vault-treasona1610 Screw Plot1710 Gunpowder Plot1796 1710 (title) The Screw-Plot discover'd: or, St. Paul's preserv'd. 1716 J. Addison Free-Holder No. 47 Since his coming to Town, he chanced to look into the Church of St. Paul, about the middle of Sermon-time, where having first examined the Dome, to see if it stood safe, (for the Screw Plot still ran in his Head) he observed, that the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and City-Sword were a part of the Congregation. 1838 C. Mackay Hist. London xv. 352 The ‘Screw Plot’, was, for several weeks, almost the only subject of conversation. 2005 D. Burrows Handel & Eng. Chapel Royal ii. 38 The carelessness of builders who had left out some of the securing screws in the roof of St Paul's was misinterpreted as a ‘screw plot’ to harm the Queen. extracted from screwn.¹ < as lemmas
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