Two members of the Ecclesiastical Commission, Mulgrave and Sprat, hastened to make atonement for their fault by plighting their faith to William.

Beaufort, who had long been considered as the type of a royalist of the old school, submitted after a very short hesitation.

Aylesbury and Dartmouth, though vehement Jacobites, had as little scruple about taking the oath of allegiance as they afterwards had about breaking it.

[35] The Hydes took different paths.

Rochester complied with the law; but Clarendon proved refractory.