His property should all be such as could be readily discovered and seized.

[493] During some weeks the seals which Nottingham had delivered up remained in the royal closet.

To dispose of them proved no easy matter.

They were offered to Shrewsbury, who of all the Whig leaders stood highest in the King's favour; but Shrewsbury excused himself, and, in order to avoid further importunity, retired into the country.

There he soon received a pressing letter from Elizabeth Villiers.