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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: the sacrament with him, "and make him sensible of the prejudice
it would do to both of them should he forbear so to do, by giving
the world so much reason to believe he was a catholick." To this
request these honest gentlemen replied it would be difficult to
move the duke to his majesty's desires; but even if they
succeeded, it would fail to convince the world his royal highness
was not a catholic. With these answers Charles seemed satisfied;
but again on Christmas Eve he urged Lord Clifford to advise the
duke to publicly communicate on the morrow. His royal highness,
not being so unscrupulous as the king, refused compliance with
his wishes.
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