A change of ministers, as well as of measures, was therefore resolved on.

In one day, several new privy counsellors were sworn; the earls of Hertford Bedford, Essex, Bristol; the lords Say, Saville, Kimbolton.
within a few days after was admitted the earl of Warwick.[**] All these noblemen were of the popular party; and some of them afterwards, when matters were pushed to extremities by the commons, proved the greatest support of monarchy.
* Clarendon, vol.i.p.

209.

Whitlocke, p.39.Rush.

vol.v.
p, 189.
** Clarendon, vol.i.p.