Though a churchman, he had prospered in a Court governed by Jesuits.

Though he had voted for a Regency, he was the real head of a treasury filled with Whigs.

His abilities and knowledge, which had in the late reign supplied the deficiencies of Bellasyse and Dover, were now needed to supply the deficiencies of Mordaunt and Delamere.

[20] There were some difficulties in disposing of the Great Seal.

The King at first wished to confide it to Nottingham, whose father had borne it during several years with high reputation.