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THE MARPLOT.
At a little after six o'clock on the evening of Saturday, 12th October, in the year 1678, the man known commonly as Edward Copshaw came to a halt opposite the narrow entry of the Savoy, just west of the Queen's palace of Somerset House.

He was a personage of many names.

In the register of the Benedictine lay-brothers he had been entered as James Singleton.

Sundry Paris tradesmen had known him as Captain Edwards, and at the moment were longing to know more of him.