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The Royalists were willing enough but " " he was so sottishly and dangerously wary of his own security, ( having neither courage enough to obey his conscience, nor wicked enough to be prosperous against it ), that he would not proceed until he was sufficiently assured that his pardon had passed the Great Seal of England " " ( Clarendon, quoted in Burke's " Extinct Baronetage " ), and the delay left time for a disloyal servant to leak the plot to the Mayor and the rest of the Committee.