Note 18 — Chapter XIII · ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION UNDER CHARLES II.
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Those who were confined by warrants were forced to buy their liberty of the courtiers; "Which," says Pepys (July 7, 1667), "is a most lamentable thing that we do professedly own that we do these things, not for right and justice' sake, but only to gratify this or that person about the king."