No man had been more active in the impeachment of the Lord Chancellor Clarendon than Coventry, who was a Commissioner of the Treasury.

No man had been more active in the impeachment of the Lord Treasurer Danby than Winnington, who was Solicitor General.

Among the members of the Government there was only one point of union, their common head, the Sovereign.

The nation considered him as the proper chief of the administration, and blamed him severely if he delegated his high functions to any subject.

Clarendon has told us that nothing was so hateful to the Englishmen of his time as a Prime Minister.