In other words they assembled under the sick man's window, and there sang doggrel lampoons on him.

[465] It is remarkable that the Lord President, at the very time at which he was insulted as a Williamite at Bath, was considered as a stanch Jacobite at Saint Germains.

How he came to be so considered is a most perplexing question.

Some writers are of opinion that he, like Shrewsbury, Russell, Godolphin and Marlborough, entered into engagements with one king while eating the bread of the other.

But this opinion does not rest on sufficient proofs.