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In addition to his writings, he served William of Orange as an intelligence agent, and was a trusted supporter of Lord Shaftesbury during the 1679 to 1680 Exclusion Crisis. In 1683, he was forced into exile in the Dutch Republic due to his involvement in the 1683 Rye House Plot, an alleged attempt to assassinate Charles II and his Catholic brother James.