[3] Burnet ii. 157.
[4] Smith, Intrigues of the Popish Plot 4. Oates, Narrative 35, 36. It was at this house that Baxter was insulted in 1677 by a Catholic gentleman, who accused him of having been tried at Worcester for the murder of a tinker. Baxter’s Relation iii. 179.
[5] Burnet ii. 157. 7 State Trials 1320.
[6] 7 State Trials 1320.
[7] Ibid. 1096, 1320, 1321. Burnet ii. 157. Foley, Records v. 12.
[8] Absalom and Achitophel 646–649. Father John Warner describes Oates in similar terms: “Mentis in eo summa stupiditas, lingua balbutiens, sermo e trivio, vox stridula et cautillans, plorantis quam loquentis similior. Memoria fallax, prius dicta nunquam fideliter reddens, frons contracta, oculi parvi et in occiput retracti, facies plana, in medio, lancis sive disci instar, compressa, prominentibus hic inde genis rubicundis nasus, os in ipso vultus centro, mentum reliquam faciem prope totam aequans, caput vix corporis trunco extans, in pectus declive, reliqua corporis hisce respondentia, monstro quam homini similiora.” MS. history 104.
[9] Lettre écrite de Mons à un ami à Paris, 1679. 7 State Trials 1322.
[10] Absalom and Achitophel 657–659.
[11] Sir William Godolphin to Henry Coventry, on information obtained in Spain, November 6/16, 1678, Longleat MSS. Coventry Papers lx. 264.
[12] 7 State Trials 358, 1322. Burnet ii. 158. Florus Anglo-Bavaricus 93.