The name "William Allen" on the title-page was, of course, assumed.

The pamphlet, hardly any one now doubts, was by Edward Sexby, the Stuartist arch-conspirator, then moving between England and the continent, and known to have been the real principal of Sindercombe's plot.

Actually, when the pamphlet appeared, the desperate man was again in England, despite Thurloe's police.

The pamphlet was greedily sought after, and much talked of.

The sale was, of course, dangerous.