He found no difficulty in crowding St.James's Palace with bigots and sycophants on whose word the nation placed no reliance.

It would have been quite as easy to procure the attendance of some eminent persons whose attachment to the Princesses and to the established religion was unquestionable.
At a later period, when he had paid dearly for his foolhardy contempt of public opinion, it was the fashion at Saint Germains to excuse him by throwing the blame on others.

Some Jacobites charged Anne with having purposely kept out of the way.

Nay, they were not ashamed to say that Sancroft had provoked the King to send him to the Tower, in order that the evidence which was to confound the calumnies of the malecontents might be defective.

[379] The absurdity of these imputations is palpable.