Note 212 — Chapter XV · INTERLUDE
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“I doe not find it easy to arrive to a true knowledge of them; For things passe here under Great Taciturnity.”—Finch to Williamson, May 31, 1676, S.P. Turkey, 19. “The New’s of this Court (which would to God Christendome could imitate) is secrecy.”—The Same to Coventry, June 20-30, 1676; “Things are so secretly transacted at this Court that there is no certainty to be had.”—The Same to the Same, March 9-19, 1677-78, Coventry Papers.