Godolphin alone of the seven was a Tory.

The Lord President, still second in rank, and a few days before first in power, of the great lay dignitaries of the realm, was passed over; and the omission was universally regarded as an official announcement of his disgrace.

[586] There were some who wondered that the Princess of Denmark was not appointed Regent.

The reconciliation, which had been begun while Mary was dying, had since her death been, in external show at least, completed.

This was one of those occasions on which Sunderland was peculiarly qualified to be useful.