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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: been maltreated.
Hereon a citizen of good standing pressed forward and alleged he
had truly seen this man put his hand in his pocket and throw a
fire-ball into a shop, upon which the house immediately took
flame; whereon, being on the other side of the street, he called
aloud that the people might stop this abominable villain. Then
the citizens had seized upon him, taking away his sword, and used
him according to their will. My Lord Hollis explaining this to
the foreigner, he was overcome by amazement at the charge; and
when asked what he had thrown into the house, made answer he had
not flung anything. But he remembered well, whilst walking in
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