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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: heart to be most innocent." Now, however, when foul charges were
made against the queen, calculated not merely to ruin her honour
but destroy her life, he resolved to interfere. He therefore
requested she would return to Whitehall, where she should be safe
under his protection; and feeling assured Oates had received
instructions from others more villainous than their tool, he
ordered a strict guard to be kept upon him. This he was,
however, obliged to remove next day at request of the Commons.
On the examination before the House of Lords of Oates and Bedlow,
their evidence proved so vague and contradictory that it was
rejected even by the most credulous. When Bedlow was asked "why
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