After which there was silence for a while between these two partners in the infamous plot.

The judge said: "Defendant Cornu, you seem to have been the instigator of this infamous plot.

On the other side he wrote where he lay (he had heard a name spoken by his warders), victim of an infamous plot of the Cardinal, and he begged to be rescued.

Ten minutes later, she stood on that infamous plot of land outside the bailey walls.

Some suspected that, far off somewhere, armies were being amassed, and there were whispered comments about "Highlords" and infamous plots.

He had touched the heart of the Lord of Stoutenburg and stopped the infamous plot against the Stadtholder's life.

He refused, however, to take any share in the infamous plot against the life of William III, although he kept the secret.

He was also involved with Luke Blackburn in an infamous plot to send clothes infected with yellow fever to northern cities in the United States.

And that polygamy was the smokescreen used to "hide the brutal villainy and outrageous hypocrisy of the whole infamous plot."

What a triumph for Stoutenburg, who had planned it all, and for Nicolaes Beresteyn, the worker of the infamous plot!