What business had he at Whitehall in these days of Protestant ascendency, he who had sate at the same board with Papists, he who had never scrupled to attend Mary of Modena to the idolatrous worship of the Mass?
The most provoking circumstance was that Godolphin, though his name stood only third in the commission, was really first Lord.

For in financial knowledge and in habits of business Mordaunt and Delamere were mere children when compared with him; and this William soon discovered.

[74] Similar feuds raged at the other great boards and through all the subordinate ranks of public functionaries.

In every customhouse, in every arsenal, were a Shrewsbury and a Nottingham, a Delamere and a Godolphin.

The Whigs complained that there was no department in which creatures of the fallen tyranny were not to be found.