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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: it true. Therefore, in order to appease such doubts as arose in
his mind, and likewise to satisfy the people, he appointed his
privy council to sit morning and evening to inquire into the
matter, and examine evidences set forth against those who had
been charged with the outrage and cast into prison during the
conflagration.
And in order that the investigation might be conducted with
greater rigour he sent into the country for the lord chief
justice, who was dreaded by all for his unflinching severity.
The lord chancellor, in his account of these transactions,
assures us many of the witnesses who gave evidence against those
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