bennifield

Updated: May 12, 2025

When this intelligence was conveyed to the king, he replied, that the packet mentioned had a few hours before been brought to the duke by Bennifield, who said, that he suspected some bad design upon him; that the letters seemed to contain matters of a dangerous import, and that he knew them not to be the handwriting of the persons whose names were subscribed to them.

David Hume - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F.: From Charles II. to James II.

Tongue came next to the treasurer, and told him, that a packet of letters, written by Jesuits concerned in the plot, was that night to be put into the post-house for Windsor, directed to Bennifield, a Jesuit, confessor to the duke.

David Hume - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F.: From Charles II. to James II.