Note 713 — Chapter III
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Reresby, Memoirs 146. “Being with the king at the Duchess of Portsmouth’s lodgings, my Lord Treasurer being also present, the king told me he took it (Oates’ story) to be some artifice, and that he did not believe one word of the Plot.” Reresby, though always well-informed, was never at this time in possession of real secrets.
Barillon, October 1/10, 1678. “Le Roi de la Grande Bretagne m’a dit qu’il ne croyait pas que cette accusation eût un veritable fondement.”
Shaftesbury, The present state of the Kingdom at the opening of the Parliament, March 6, 1679. “As concerning the plot and the murder of Godfrey, the king’s discourses and managing are new and extraordinary. No man can judge by them but that he is in the plot against his own life; and no man doubts but he is so far in as concerns us all.” Printed Christie ii. 309.