He was probably spared his life due to the discovery of letters addressed to Francois La Chaise.
He was probably spared his life due to the discovery of letters addressed to Francois La Chaise. Those letters had been written by the secretary to the duchess of York, Edward Coleman. Edmond Berry Godfrey took his depositions and soon after was found murdered in the fields near Primrose Hill. Equally guilty was his colleague and collaborator Israel Tonge. FTP, name this man who, in 1678, fabricated the tale of a Jesuit plan to assassinate Charles II in what became known as the Popish Plot.
He was probably spared his life due to the discovery of letters addressed to Francois La Chaise.
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