This nobleman was created lord chamberlain; the earl of Manchester was sent ambassador extraordinary to France; the earl of Pembroke was declared lord-president of the council; and lord viscount Lonsdale keeper of the privy-seal.
{WILLIAM, 1688--1701.} INQUIRY INTO THE EXPEDITION Of CAPTAIN KIDD.
The house was not in a humour to be appeased with soothing promises and protestations; they determined to distress him by prosecuting his ministers.

During the war the colonies of North America had grown rich by piracy.

One Kidd, the master of a sloop, undertook to suppress the pirates, provided the government would furnish him with a ship of thirty guns well manned.

The board of admiralty declaring that such a number of seamen could not be spared from the public service, Kidd was equipped by the private subscription of the lord Chancellor, the duke of Shrewsbury, the earls of Romney, Orford, and Bellamont, sir Edward Harrison, and colonel Livingstone of New York.

The king promised to contribute one-half of the expense, and reserved to himself one-tenth of the profits; but he never advanced the money.