[414] With this answer Russell returned to London, where he found the excitement greatly increased and daily increasing.

The imprisonment of the Bishops and the delivery of the Queen made his task easier than he could have anticipated.

He lost no time in collecting the voices of the chiefs of the opposition.

His principal coadjutor in this work was Henry Sidney, brother of Algernon.

It is remarkable that both Edward Russell and Henry Sidney had been in the household of James, that both had, partly on public and partly on private grounds, become his enemies, and that both had to avenge the blood of near kinsmen who had, in the same year, fallen victims to his implacable severity.