Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:613:the previous twelve years (Neal Stephenson)

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The account of English history 1673-1685 given in this and following pages is faithful in its general outlines to what really happened, but many of the names mentioned, viz., Daniel Waterhouse, John Comstock, Thomas More Anglesey, Knott and Gomer Bolstrood, Upnor, Sheerness, Roger Comstock and Sir Richard Apthorp, are fictional characters. Events such as the Popish Plot, the urban renewal project around St. James's and Piccadilly, Exclusion, the founding of the Whigs, etc. really happened.