Hinton claimed that she had been sending useful information to fellow Royalists for more than four years, using a variety of ciphers and codenames. His list included Susan Hyde, the sister of Sir Edward Hyde, one of Charles II’s closest advisers.
Interrogated by Cromwell’s own intelligence officers, Hinton quickly confessed his guilt and gave up the names of a number of spies with ties to the Sealed Knot, one of the Royalist secret societies operating in England during the Commonwealth. In September 1656 a London apothecary, Anthony Hinton, was arrested on suspicion of using his premises beside the Old Bailey as a clearing house for letters on their way to exiled Royalists on the Continent.
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