The Earl of Pembroke, who had recently served the crown with fidelity and spirit against Monmouth, was displaced in Wiltshire, the Earl of Husband in Leicestershire, the Earl of Bridgewater in Buckinghamshire, the Earl of Thanet in Cumberland, the Earl of Northampton in Warwickshire, the Earl of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, and the Earl of Scarsdale in Derbyshire.
Scarsdale was also deprived of a regiment of cavalry, and of an office in the household of the Princess of Denmark.

She made a struggle to retain his services, and yielded only to a peremptory command of her father.

The Earl of Gainsborough was rejected, not only from the lieutenancy of Hampshire, but also from the government of Portsmouth and the rangership of the New Forest, two places for which he had, only a few months before, given five thousand pounds.

[320] The King could not find Lords of great note, or indeed Protestant Lords of any sort, who would accept the vacant offices.

It was necessary to assign two shires to Jeffreys, a new man whose landed property was small, and two to Preston who was not even an English peer.