These were John Kettlewell, Rector of Coleshill, and John Fitzwilliam, Canon of Windsor.

It is remarkable that both these men had seen much of Lord Russell, and that both, though differing from him in political opinions, and strongly disapproving the part which he had taken in the Whig plot, had thought highly of his character, and had been sincere mourners for his death.

He had sent to Kettlewell an affectionate message from the scaffold in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Lady Russell, to her latest day, loved, trusted, and revered Fitzwilliam, who, when she was a girl, had been the friend of her father, the virtuous Southampton.

The two clergymen agreed in refusing to swear: but they, from that moment, took different paths.