[419] Both Danby and Compton were desirous to secure the assistance of Nottingham.

The whole plan was opened to him; and he approved of it.
But in a few days he began to be unquiet.

His mind was not sufficiently powerful to emancipate itself from the prejudices of education.

He went about from divine to divine proposing in general terms hypothetical cases of tyranny, and inquiring whether in such cases resistance would be lawful.

The answers which he obtained increased his distress.