Romney had obtained a considerable share of the royal bounty.

But of all the grants the largest was to Woodstock, the eldest son of Portland; the next was to Albemarle.

An admirer of William cannot relate without pain that he divided between these two foreigners an extent of country larger than Hertfordshire.
This fact, simply reported, would have sufficed to excite a strong feeling of indignation in a House of Commons less irritable and querulous than that which then sate at Westminster.

But Trenchard and his confederates were not content with simply reporting the fact.

They employed all their skill to inflame the passions of the majority.