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just strictures on the character of the informers. See especially his letter to Lord Arran, November 17, 1681.
102 I have in the main followed Carte's account of these transactions. The numerous contemporary pamphlets relating to the plot both in England and Ireland are interesting, as showing the rumours current at the time, but are wholly untrustworthy as regards matters of fact.
103 "A most venerable and religious man," Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, I., 220. "A wise and sober man," Burnett, 331.
104 Burnet, 1. c.
105 Ibid. See the report of Plunket's trial in the State Trials, and his last speech in Reilly's Ireland's Case Briefly Stated.
106 See Charles's letter to Ormond, Oct. 19th, 1684, in Carte's Appendix.
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