He covered them with curses and devoted them to the gibbet.

He began by warmly commending Buys and Barneveld, Hohenlo and Maurice, and endowing them with every virtue.

Before he left the country he had accused them of every crime, and would cheerfully, if he could, have taken the life of every one of them.

And it was quite the same with nearly every Englishman who served with or under him.

Wilkes and Buckhurst, however much the objects of his previous esteem; so soon as they ventured to censure or even to criticise his proceedings, were at once devoted to perdition.