Accordingly the Bedloes, Dangerfields, Dugdales, Turberviles, made haste to transfer their industry to an employment at once more profitable and less perilous than any to which they were accustomed.

Till the dissolution of the Oxford Parliament Popish plots were the chief manufacture.

Then, during seven years, Whig plots were the only plots which paid.

After the Revolution Jacobite plots came in; but the public had become cautious; and though the new false witnesses were in no respect less artful than their predecessors, they found much less encouragement.

The history of the first great check given to the practices of this abandoned race of men well deserves to be circumstantially related.
In 1689, and in the beginning of 1690, William Fuller had rendered to the government service such as the best governments sometimes require, and such as none but the worst men ever perform.