All fines, all forfeitures went to Sunderland.

On every grant toll was paid to him.

If any suitor ventured to ask any favour directly from the King, the answer was, "Have you spoken to my Lord President ?" One bold man ventured to say that the Lord President got all the money of the court.

"Well," replied His Majesty "he deserves it all." [460] We shall scarcely overrate the amount of the minister's gains, if we put them at thirty thousand pounds a year: and it must be remembered that fortunes of thirty thousand pounds a year were in his time rarer than fortunes of a hundred thousand pounds a year now are.

It is probable that there was then not one peer of the realm whose private income equalled Sunderland's official income.
What chance was there that, in a new order of things, a man so deeply implicated in illegal and unpopular acts, a member of the High Commission, a renegade whom the multitude, in places of general resort, pursued with the cry of Popish dog, would be greater and richer?
What chance that he would even be able to escape condign punishment?
He had undoubtedly been long in the habit of looking forward to the time when William and Mary might be, in the ordinary course of nature and law, at the head of the English government, and had probably attempted to make for himself an interest in their favour, by promises and services which, if discovered, would not have raised his credit at Whitehall.