es it highly criminal in such an
extremity; besides that most of them as yet unacquainted with the Prince
of Orange, imagined him prudent, and consequently capable of punishing
so base a desertion, either out of generosity, or policy. These found
afterwards their caution needless, but at present it influenced the
council to send 200 of the life guards under their captain the earl
of Feversham; first to rescue the King from all danger of the common
people, and afterwards to attend him toward the sea side; if he
continued his resolution of retiring, which they thought it more decent
to connive at, than to detain him here by force.'

Whoever has the least spark of generosity in his nature, cannot but
highly applaud this tender conduct of his lordship's, towards his
Sovereign in distress; and look with contempt upon the slowness of the
council in dispatching a force to his relief, especially when we find it
was only out of dread, lest they should displease the Prince of Orange,
that they sent any: this shewed a meanness of spirit, a want of true
honour, to such a degree, that the Prince of Orange himself could not,
consistently with good policy, trust those worshippers of power, who
could hear, unconcerned, that their late Sovereign was in the hands of a
vile rabble, and intreating them in vain for rescue.

The earl of Mulgrave made no mean compliances to King William,
immediately after the revolution, but when he went to pay his addresses
to him, he was well received; yet did he not accept of a post in the
government till some years after.

May 10, in the 6th year of William and Mary, he was created marquis of
Normanby, in the county of Lincoln. When it was debated in Parliament,
whether the Prince of Orange should be proclaimed King, or the Princess
his wife reign solely in her own right, he voted and spoke for the
former, and gave these reasons for it. That he thought the title of
either person was equal; and since the Parliament was to decide the
matter, he judged it would much better please that Prince, who was now
become their Protector, and was also in itself a thing more becoming so
good a Princess, as Queen Mary, to partake with her husband a crown so
obtained, than to possess it entirely as her own. After long debates in
Parliament, the crown at last was settled upon William and Mary. Burnet
lord bishop of Salisbury, whose affection for the revolution none I
believe can doubt, freely acknowledges that the King w