 On 21 November Ahlers reported his findings to the king and later to " several Persons of Note and Distinction " . Howard wrote to Ahlers the next day , asking for the return of his specimens . Ahlers ' suspicions began to worry both Howard and St. André , and apparently the king , as two days later St. André and a colleague were ordered back to Guildford . Upon their arrival they met Howard , who told St. André that Toft had given birth to two more rabbits . She delivered several portions of what was presumed to be a placenta but she was by then quite ill , and suffering from a constant pain in the right side of her abdomen . In a pre @-@ emptive move against Ahlers , St. André collected affidavits from several witnesses , which in effect cast doubt on Ahlers ' honesty , and on 26 November gave an anatomical demonstration before the king to support Toft 's story . According to his pamphlet , neither St. André nor Molyneux suspected any fraudulent activity . 
