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[ Our information about Wycherly is very scanty; but two things are certain, that in his later years he called himself a Papist, and that he received money from James. I have very little doubt that he was a hired convert.]
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[ See the article on him in the Biographia Britannica.]
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[ See James Quin's account of Haines in Davies's Miscellanies; Tom Brown's Works; Lives of Sharpers; Dryden's Epilogue to the Secular Masque.]
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[ This fact, which escaped the minute researches of Malone, appears from the Treasury Letter Book of 1685.]
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[ Leeuwen, Dec 25/Jan 4 1685/6]