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means of indulging his infamous tastes by cheating and ma- chap.

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rauding; that he was one of a gang of clippers; that he some— 6 ' 5 - s - ' -times got on horseback late in the evening and stole out indisguise, and that, when he returned from these mysteriousexcursions, his appearance justified the suspicion that he hadbeen doing business on Hounslow Heath or Finchley Com-mon*

Cardell Goodman, popularly called Scum Goodman, a knave Goodman,more abandoned, if possible, than Porter, was in the plot.Goodman had been on the stage, had been kept, like somemuch greater men, by the Duchess of Cleveland, had beentaken into her house, had been loaded by her with gifts, andhad requited her by bribing an Italian quack to poison twoof her children. As the poison had not been administered,Goodman could be prosecuted only for a misdemeanour. Hewas tried, convicted and sentenced to a ruinous fine. He hadsince distinguished himself as one of the first forgers of banknotes.**

Sir "William Parkyns, a wealthy knight bred to the law, who Parkyns.had been conspicuous among the Tories in the days of the Ex-clusion Bill, was one of the most important members of theconfederacy. He bore a much fairer character than most of hisaccomplices: but in one respect he was more culpable than anyof them. For he had, in order to retain a lucrative office whichhe held in the Court of Chancery, sworn allegiance to the Princeagainst whose life he now conspired.

The design wrns imparted to Sir John Fenwick, celebrated F ' nwick>on account of the cowardly insult which he had offered to the

* Every tiling bad that was known or rumoured about Porter came outon the State Trials of 1G9G.

** As to Goodman see the evidence on the trial of Peter Cook; Cle-Feb. 2*^«

verskirke, fiUrc[i - 1<39G; I/Hermitage, April 1G96; and a pasquinadeentitled the Duchess of Cleveland’s Memorial.

Macaulay, Uislorij. VIII.

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