He wheedled Tillotson out of some money, and requited the good Archbishop's kindness by passing himself off as His Grace's favourite nephew.

But in the autumn of 1691 all these shifts were exhausted.

After lying in several spunging houses, Fuller was at length lodged in the King's Bench prison, and he now thought it time to announce that he had discovered a plot.

[196] He addressed himself first to Tillotson and Portland; but both Tillotson and Portland soon perceived that he was lying.

What he said was, however, reported to the King, who, as might have been expected, treated the information and the informant with cold contempt.