Even the Chancellor, with whom Montague was on terms of intimate friendship, had not been consulted.

Godolphin devoured his ill temper.

Caermarthen ordered out his wonderful yacht, and hastened to complain to the King, who was then at Loo.

But what had been done could not be undone.
This bold stroke placed Montague's fortune, in the lower sense of the word, out of hazard, but increased the animosity of his enemies and cooled the zeal of his adherents.

In a letter written by one of his colleagues, Secretary Vernon, on the day after the appointment, the Auditorship is described as at once a safe and lucrative place.