The Popish Plot: A study in the history of the reign of Charles II

by John Pollock

[121] It is a tribute to the liveliness of Oates’ imagination that Pickering, said to be an agent in the Jesuit plot, was a Benedictine lay-brother.

[122] Kirkby, Compleat and True Narrative i. Simpson Tonge’s Journal 38; S.P. Dom. Charles II 409.

[123] Simpson Tonge’s Journal 39.

[124] Kirkby, Compleat and True Narrative 2. Simpson Tonge’s Journal 40, 41. Impartial State of the Case of the Earl of Danby 13, 14.

[125] Impartial State of the Case 14, 15.

[126] Florus Anglo-Bavaricus 95.

[127] Impartial State of the Case 15. Kirkby, Compleat and True Narrative 2. 7 State Trials 96, 328, 345. Simpson Tonge’s Journal 39, 59.

[128] Impartial State of the Case 15.

[129] Impartial State of the Case 15, 16. Kirkby, Compleat and True Narrative 2, 3. Simpson Tonge’s Journal 64, 65, 124. L’Estrange, Brief Hist. ii. 4–15. Observator ii. 150–153, October 1684. James (Or. Mem.) i. 518, 519. Ralph i. 383, 384. Burnet ii. 158.

[130] Simpson Tonge’s Journal 135. Kirkby, Compleat and True Narrative 3. Impartial State of the Case 16. James (Or. Mem.) i. 518. Temple, Works i. 398. Reresby, Memoirs 147. Burnet ii. 158.