But, if there were any person to whom Caermarthen was partial, that person was undoubtedly Mary.

That he had seriously engaged in a plot to depose her, at the risk of his head if he failed, and with the certainty of losing immense power and wealth if he succeeded, was a story too absurd for any credulity but the credulity of exiles.
Caermarthen had indeed at that moment peculiarly strong reasons for being satisfied with the place which he held in the counsels of William and Mary.

There is but too strong reason to believe that he was then accumulating unlawful gain with a rapidity unexampled even in his experience.
The contest between the two East India Companies was, during the autumn of 1693, fiercer than ever.

The House of Commons, finding the Old Company obstinately averse to all compromise, had, a little before the close of the late session, requested the King to give the three years' warning prescribed by the Charter.

Child and his fellows now began to be seriously alarmed.