He knew of Mr.
Lovel's dealings with the Jesuits Walsh and Phayre, and of a certain little hovel in Battersea whose annals were not for the public ear.
Above all, he knew of the great Jesuit consult in April at the Duke of York's house.

That would have mattered little--indeed the revelation of it was part of Mr.Lovel's plans--but he knew Mr.Lovel s precise connection with it, and had damning evidence to boot.

The spy shivered when he remembered the scene in Hartshorn Lane.

He had blundered and stuttered and confessed his alarm by his confusion, while the Justice recited what he had fondly believed was known only to the Almighty and some few whose mortal interest it was to be silent....

He had been amazed that he had not been there and then committed to Newgate.