Fortunately the most important day of his life, the day from which all his subsequent years took their colour, found him out of temper with the banished King.
Godolphin had not, and did not pretend to have, any cause of complaint against the government which he served.

He was First Commissioner of the Treasury.

He had been protected, trusted, caressed.

Indeed the favour shown to him had excited many murmurs.

Was it fitting, the Whigs had indignantly asked, that a man who had been high in office through the whole of the late reign, who had promised to vote for the Indulgence, who had sate in the Privy Council with a Jesuit, who had sate at the Board of Treasury with two Papists, who had attended an idolatress to her altar, should be among the chief ministers of a Prince whose title to the throne was derived from the Declaration of Rights?
But on William this clamour had produced no effect; and none of his English servants seems to have had at this time a larger share of his confidence than Godolphin.
Nevertheless, the Jacobites did not despair.