The English Roman Catholics with whom he was in the habit of taking counsel were almost unanimous in favour of the Act of Settlement.

Not only the honest and moderate Powis, but the dissolute and headstrong Dover, gave judicious and patriotic advice.
Tyrconnel could hardly hope to counteract at a distance the effect which such advice must produce on the royal mind.

He determined to plead the cause of his caste in person; and accordingly he set out, at the end of August, for England.
His presence and his absence were equally dreaded by the Lord Lieutenant.

It was, indeed, painful to be daily browbeaten by an enemy: but it was not less painful to know that an enemy was daily breathing calumny and evil counsel in the royal ear.

Clarendon was overwhelmed by manifold vexations.