Halifax and Danby led the other side.

The Primate, strange to say, did not make his appearance, though earnestly importuned by the Tory peers to place himself at their head.
His absence drew on him many contumelious censures; nor have even his eulogists been able to find any explanation of it which raises his character.

[646] The plan of Regency was his own.

He had, a few days before, in a paper written with his own hand, pronounced that plan to be clearly the best that could be adopted.

The deliberations of the Lords who supported that plan had been carried on under his roof.