Note 83 — Chapter IV · NEWGATE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (AFTER THE GREAT FIRE).
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Dr. Oates in the next reign was to some extent indemnified for his sufferings. When quite an old man he married a young city heiress with a fortune of £2000; and a writer who handled this “Salamanca wedding,” as it was called, was arrested. Oates was in the receipt of a pension of £300 from the Government when he died in 1705.