To the former class belonged Shrewsbury.

Of the latter class the most remarkable specimen was Robert Ferguson.

From the day on which the Convention Parliament was dissolved, Shrewsbury began to waver in his allegiance: but that he had ever wavered was not, till long after, suspected by the public.

That Ferguson had, a few months after the Revolution, become a furious Jacobite, was no secret to any body, and ought not to have been matter of surprise to any body.

For his apostasy he could not plead even the miserable excuse that he had been neglected.