When at length his health began to suffer from restraint, he was permitted to go into the country under the care of a warder; the warder was soon removed; and Clarendon was informed that, while he led a quiet rural life, he should not be molested.

[19] The treason of Dartmouth was of no common dye.

He was an English seaman; and he had laid a plan for betraying Portsmouth to the French, and had offered to take the command of a French squadron against his country.

It was a serious aggravation of his guilt that he had been one of the very first persons who took the oaths to William and Mary.

He was arrested and brought to the Council Chamber.