But experience proves that there are some distempered minds for which notoriety, even when accompanied with pain and shame, has an irresistible fascination.

Animated by this loathsome ambition, Fuller equalled, and perhaps surpassed, his model.

He was bred a Roman Catholic, and was page to Lady Melfort, when Lady Melfort shone at Whitehall as one of the loveliest women in the train of Mary of Modena.
After the Revolution, he followed his mistress to France, was repeatedly employed in delicate and perilous commissions, and was thought at Saint Germains to be a devoted servant of the House of Stuart.

In truth, however, he had, in one of his journeys to London, sold himself to the new government, and had abjured the faith in which he had been brought up.

The honour, if it is to be so called, of turning him from a worthless Papist into a worthless Protestant he ascribed, with characteristic impudence, to the lucid reasoning and blameless life of Tillotson.
In the spring of 1690, Mary of Modena wished to send to her correspondents in London some highly important despatches.