A demand made by him on account of expenses incurred at the time of the Revolution was allowed; and he carried with him into retirement as the reward of his patriotic exertions a large sum, which the State could ill spare.

But his anger was not to be so appeased; and to the end of his life he continued to complain bitterly of the ingratitude with which he and his party had been treated, [582] Sir John Lowther became First Lord of the Treasury, and was the person on whom Caermarthen chiefly relied for the conduct of the ostensible business of the House of Commons.

Lowther was a man of ancient descent, ample estate, and great parliamentary interest.

Though not an old man, he was an old senator: for he had, before he was of age, succeeded his father as knight of the shire for Westmoreland.

In truth the representation of Westmoreland was almost as much one of the hereditaments of the Lowther family as Lowther Hall.