He succeeded in both objects.

He obtained a pension of four thousand pounds a year for two lives on the post office.

He had made great sums out of the estates of traitors, and carried with him in particular Grey's bond for forty thousand pounds, and a grant of all the estate which the crown had in Grey's extensive property.

[201] No person had ever quitted office on terms so advantageous.

To the applause of the sincere friends of the Established Church Rochester had, indeed, very slender claims.
To save his place he had sate in that tribunal which had been illegally created for the purpose of persecuting her.