The King who had been one of its members was an exile.

The judge by whom all its most exorbitant pretensions had been pronounced legitimate was a prisoner.

All the old enemies of the Company, reinforced by those great Whig merchants whom Child had expelled from the direction, demanded justice and vengeance from the Whig House of Commons, which had just placed William and Mary on the throne.

No voice was louder in accusation than that of Papillon, who had, some years before, been more zealous for the charter than any man in London.

[170] The Commons censured in severe terms the persons who had inflicted death by martial law at Saint Helena, and even resolved that some of those offenders should be excluded from the Act of Indemnity.