His father Clarendon, his uncle Rochester, were men whose loyalty was supposed to be proof to all temptation.

What must be the strength of that feeling against which the most deeply rooted hereditary prejudices were of no avail, of that feeling which could reconcile a young officer of high birth to desertion, aggravated by breach of trust and by gross falsehood?
That Cornbury was not a man of brilliant parts or enterprising temper made the event more alarming.

It was impossible to doubt that he had in some quarter a powerful and artful prompter.
Who that prompter was soon became evident.

In the meantime no man in the royal camp could feel assured that he was not surrounded by traitors.
Political rank, military rank, the honour of a nobleman, the honour of a soldier, the strongest professions, the purest Cavalier blood, could no longer afford security.

Every man might reasonably doubt whether every order which he received from his superior was not meant to serve the purposes of the enemy.