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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: concerned in the cause of royalty. In this situation he remained
until four years previous to the restoration, when he was sent
into England for the purpose of observing the condition of the
nation, and reporting the same. Scarce had he set foot in London
when he was seized, examined, and only liberated on a friend
offering bail for him to the amount of one thousand pounds.
The better to disguise the object of his visit, and lull
suspicions of republicans, he took out the degree of Doctor of
Physic at Oxford; after which he retired into Kent, where he
devoted a great portion of his time to the study of botany and
the composition of poetry. On Cromwell's death he hastened to
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