His first impulse was to bide the paper from all human eyes.

He threw into the fire every copy which had been brought to him, except one; and that one he would scarcely trust out of his own hands.

[498] The paragraph in the manifesto which disturbed him most was that in which it was said that some of the Peers, Spiritual and Temporal, had invited the Prince of Orange to invade England.

Halifax, Clarendon, and Nottingham were then in London.

They were immediately summoned to the palace and interrogated.