him as a prey for the men who initiated this "Terror" of the seventeenth
century. Sir. Edmund Berry Godfrey came to his death in October, 1678,
and in December Samuel Atkins, Pepys's clerk, was brought to trial as an
accessory to his murder. Shaftesbury and the others not having succeeded
in getting at Pepys through his clerk, soon afterwards attacked him more
directly, using the infamous evidence of Colonel Scott. Much light has
lately been thrown upon the underhand dealings of this miscreant by Mr. G.
D. Scull, who printed privately in 1883 a valuable work entitled,
"Dorothea Scott, otherwise Gotherson, and Hogben of Egerton House, Kent,
1611-1680."

John Scott (calling himself Colonel Scott) ingratiated himself into
acquaintance with Major Gotherson, and sold to the latter large tracts of
land in Long Island, to which he had no right whatever. Dorothea
Gotherson, after her husband's death, took steps to ascertain the exact
state of her property, and obtained the assistance of Colonel Francis
Lovelace, Governor of New York. Scott's fraud was discovered, and a
petition for redress was presented to the King. The result of this was
that the Duke of York commanded Pepys to collect evidence against Scott,
and he accordingly brought together a great number of depositions and
information as to his dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island,
Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these papers are preserved
among the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian. Scott had his revenge,
and accused Pepys of betraying the Navy by sending secret particulars to
the French Government, and of a design to dethrone the king and extirpate
the Protestant religion. Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane were committed to
the Tower under the Speaker's warrant on May 22nd, 1679, and Pepys's place
at the Admiralty was filled by the appointment of Thomas Hayter. When the
two prisoners were brought to the bar of the King's Bench on the 2nd of
June, the Attorney-General refused bail, but subsequently they were