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A a series of plots, conspiracies, and outright paranoia sweeps across eighteenth-century England, James Tilly Matthews lands in Bethlem Hospital, a notorious asylum for the insane, apparently for political reasons, and despite years of struggle, his wife Margaret, has been unable to free him, because of the efforts of "Bedlam's" chief administrator, John Haslam.

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