Half the clubs would have been wandering in search of shelter.

The traveller at nightfall would have found the inn where he had expected to sup and lodge deserted.

The clown would have regretted the hedge alehouse, where he had been accustomed to take his pot on the bench before the door in summer, and at the chimney corner in winter.

The nation might, perhaps under such provocation, have risen in general rebellion without waiting for the help of foreign allies.
It was not to be expected that a prince who required all the humblest servants of the government to support his policy on pain of dismission would continue to employ an Attorney General whose aversion to that policy was no secret.

Sawyer had been suffered to retain his situation more than a year and a half after he had declared against the dispensing power.