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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: duty to let the lord chancellor and the attorney-general know
"What profligate wretches these witnesses were." His
interference was received with hostility. The attorney-general
took it ill that he should disparage the king's evidence; Lord
Shaftesbury avowed those who sought to undermine the credit of
witnesses were to be looked on as public enemies; whilst the Duke
of Lauderdale said Burnet desired to save Staley because of the
regard he had for anyone who would murder his majesty.
Frightened by such remarks at a time when no man's life or credit
was safe, Burnet shrank from further action; but rumour of his
interference having got noised abroad, it was resented by the
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