Scarcely had Preston's plot been detected; when a new plot of a very different kind was formed in the camp, in the navy, in the treasury, in the very bedchamber of the King.

This mystery of iniquity has, through five generations, been gradually unveiling, but is not yet entirely unveiled.

Some parts which are still obscure may possibly, by the discovery of letters or diaries now reposing under the dust of a century and a half, be made clear to our posterity.

The materials, however, which are at present accessible, are sufficient for the construction of a narrative not to be read without shame and loathing.

[62] We have seen that, in the spring of 1690, Shrewsbury, irritated by finding his counsels rejected, and those of his Tory rivals followed, suffered himself, in a fatal hour, to be drawn into a correspondence with the banished family.