His only wish was to be suffered to end his troubled life at Althorpe; and he would be content to forfeit his head if ever he went beyond the palings of his park.

[471] While the House of Commons, which had been elected during the vacancy of the throne, was busily engaged in the work of proscription, he could not venture to show himself in England.

But when that assembly had ceased to exist, he thought himself safe.

He returned a few days after the Act of Grace had been laid on the table of the Lords.

From the benefit of that Act he was by name excluded; but he well knew that he had now nothing to fear.