The debt still due to the crown was remitted.
Peterborough was induced, by royal mediation, to compromise his action.
Sawyer was dismissed.

Powis became Attorney General.

Williams was made Solicitor, received the honour of knighthood, and was soon a favourite.
Though in rank he was only the second law officer of the crown, his abilities, learning, and energy were such that he completely threw his superior into the shade.

[355] Williams had not been long in office when he was required to bear a chief part in the most memorable state trial recorded in the British annals.
On the twenty-seventh of April 1688, the King put forth a second Declaration of Indulgence.

In this paper he recited at length the Declaration of the preceding April.