By a Commission of Lieutenancy which had been issued immediately after the Revolution, the train bands of the City had been put under the command of staunch Whigs.

Those powerful and opulent citizens whose names were omitted complained that the list was filled with elders of Puritan congregations, with Shaftesbury's brisk boys, with Rye House plotters, and that it was scarcely possible to find, mingled with that multitude of fanatics and levellers, a single man sincerely attached to monarchy and to the Church.

A new Commission now appeared framed by Caermarthen and Nottingham.

They had taken counsel with Compton, the Bishop of the diocese; and Compton was not a very discreet adviser.

He had originally been a High Churchman and a Tory.