Could Anne or Sancroft possibly have foreseen that the Queen's calculations would turn out to be erroneous by a whole month?
Had those calculations been correct, Anne would have been back from Bath, and Sancroft would have been out of the Tower, in ample time for the birth.
At all events the maternal uncles of the King's daughters were neither at a distance nor in a prison.

The same messenger who summoned the whole bevy of renegades, Dover, Peterborough, Murray, Sunderland, and Mulgrave, could just as easily have summoned Clarendon.

If they were Privy Councillors, so was he.

His house was in Jermyn Street, not two hundred yards from the chamber of the Queen.

Yet he was left to learn at St.James's Church, from the agitation and whispers of the congregation, that his niece had ceased to be heiress presumptive of the crown.