Some months elapsed before the place which he had quitted was filled up; and during this interval the whole business which had ordinarily been divided between two Secretaries of State was transacted by Nottingham.

[202] While these arrangements were in progress, events had taken place in a distant part of the island which were not, till after the lapse of many months, known in the best informed circles of London, but which gradually obtained a fearful notoriety, and which, after the lapse of more than a hundred and sixty years, are never mentioned without horror.
Soon after the Estates of Scotland had separated in the autumn of 1690, a change was made in the administration of that kingdom.

William was not satisfied with the way in which he had been represented in the Parliament House.

He thought that the rabbled curates had been hardly treated.

He had very reluctantly suffered the law which abolished patronage to be touched with his sceptre.