There was much murmuring when the names were made known.

For both Plowden and Fitton were Saxons.

The commission, however, proved to be a mere nullity.

For it was accompanied by instructions which forbade the Lords justices to interfere in the conduct of the war; and, within the narrow space to which the dominions of James were now reduced, war was the only business.

The government was, therefore, really in the hands of D'Usson and Sarsfield.