But there were in the assembly those who by no means approved of the decision in which they affected to concur, and who wished to see the King treated with a severity which they did not venture openly to recommend.

It is a remarkable fact that the chief of this party was a peer who had been a vehement Tory, and who afterwards died a Nonjuror, Clarendon.

The rapidity, with which, at this crisis, he went backward and forward from extreme to extreme, might seem incredible to people living in quiet times, but will not surprise those who have had an opportunity of watching the course of revolutions.

He knew that the asperity, with which he had, in the royal presence, censured the whole system of government, had given mortal offence to his old master.

On the other hand he might, as the uncle of the Princesses, hope to be great and rich in the new world which was about to commence.