Every adviser of the Crown, who had been concerned in the procuring or passing of any exorbitant grant, ought to be excluded from all access to the royal ear.

A list of the privy councillors, furnished in conformity with the order made two days before, was on the table.

That list the clerk was ordered to read.
Prince George of Denmark and the Archbishop of Canterbury passed without remark.

But, as soon as the Chancellor's name had been pronounced, the rage of his enemies broke forth.

Twice already, in the course of that stormy session, they had attempted to ruin his fame and his fortunes; and twice his innocence and his calm fortitude had confounded all their politics.