"Would to God," said the secretary, "that, with his value and courage, he carried the mind and reputation of a religious soldier." But that was past praying for.

Sir John was proud, untractable, turbulent, very difficult to manage.

He hated Leicester, and was furious with Sir William Pelham, whom Leicester had made marshal of the camp.

He complained, not unjustly, that from the first place in the army, which he had occupied in the Netherlands, he had been reduced to the fifth.

The governor-general--who chose to call Sir John the son of his ancient enemy, the Earl of Sussex--often denounced him in good set terms.