He added that it might be advisable to open a negotiation with the Prince of Orange.

Jeffreys and Godolphin followed; and both declared that they agreed with Rochester.
Then Clarendon rose, and, to the astonishment of all who remembered his loud professions of loyalty, and the agony of shame and sorrow into which he had been thrown, only a few days before, by the news of his son's defection, broke forth into a vehement invective against tyranny and Popery.

"Even now," he said, "His Majesty is raising in London a regiment into which no Protestant is admitted." "That is not true," cried James, in great agitation, from the head of the board.

Clarendon persisted, and left this offensive topic only to pass to a topic still more offensive.

He accused the unfortunate King of pusillanimity.