63. It was, as we have seen, near the White House.
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65. For the Meal Tub plot see R. Mansell, An exact and true narrative of the late popish intrigue to form a plot and then to cast the guilt and odium thereof upon the Protestants (1680). A just narrative of the hellish new counter plots of the papists to cast the odium of their horrid treasons upon the Presbyterians (1679). Marshall, Intelligence, pp. 210–11, 212–14. HMC Ormonde MSS, NS, IV, pp. 553–57. Several affidavits lately taken upon oath by divers of his Majesties justices of the peace which farther confirm the testimony given concerning the murther of sir Edmund Bury Godfrey (1683), pp. 3–4.
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