in court at the trial of the seven bishops,
accompanied with other noblemen, which had a good effect on the jury,
and brought the judges to a better temper than they had usually shewn.
He also engaged with those who were in the prince of Orange's interest;
and carried on his part of that enterprize in London, under the eye of
the court, with the same courage and resolution as his friend the duke
of Devonshire did in open arms, at Nottingham. When prince George of
Denmark deserted King James, and joined the prince of Orange, the
princess Anne was in violent apprehensions of the King's displeasure,
and being desirous of withdrawing herself, lord Dorset was thought the
properest guide for her necessary flight[3]. She was secretly brought
to him by his lady's uncle, the bishop of London: who furnished the
princess with every thing necessary for her flight to the Prince of
Orange, and attended her northward, as far as Northampton, where he
quickly brought a body of horse to serve for her guard, and went from
thence to Nottingham, to confer with the duke of Devonshire. After
the misguided monarch had withdrawn himself, lord Dorset continued
at London, and was one of those peers who sat every day in the
Council-chamber, and took upon them the government of the realm, in this
extremity, till some other power should be introduced. In the debates in
Parliament immediately after this confusion, his lordship voted for the
vacancy of the throne, and that the prince and princess of Orange should
be declared King and Queen of England, &c. When their Majesties had
accepted the crown of these realms, his lordship was the next day sworn
of the privy-council, and declared lord chamberlain of the household,
'A place, says Prior, which he eminently adorned by the grace of his
person, the fineness of his breeding, and the knowledge and practice of
what was decent and magnificent.' It appears by the history of England,
that he had the honour to stand godfather, with King William to a son of
the prince and princess of Denmark, born at Hampton-court, the 24th of
July 1689, and christened the 27th by the name of William, whom his
Majesty declared duke of Gloucester. When the King had been earnestly
entreated by the States of Holland, and the confederate princes in
Germany, to meet at a general congress to be held at the Hague, in
order to concert matters for the better support of the confederacy, and
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