[101] The three remaining Commissioners were the Lord Treasurer, the Lord President, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

Rochester, disapproving and murmuring, consented to serve.

Much as he had to endure at the court, he could not bear to quit it.

Much as he loved the Church, he could not bring himself to sacrifice for her sake his white staff, his patronage, his salary of eight thousand pounds a year, and the far larger indirect emoluments of his office.

He excused his conduct to others, and perhaps to himself, by pleading that, as a Commissioner, he might be able to prevent much evil, and that, if he refused to act, some person less attached to the Protestant religion would be found to replace him.