the salary which had been withdrawn. The deposed Laureate,
however, as poor of spirit as rich in intellectual gifts,
continued to complain piteously, year after year, of the losses
which he had not suffered, till at length his wailings drew forth
expressions of well merited contempt from brave and honest
Jacobites, who had sacrificed every thing to their principles
without deigning to utter one word of deprecation or
lamentation.29

In the Royal household were placed some of those Dutch nobles who
stood highest in the favour of the King. Bentinck had the great
office of Groom of the Stole, with a salary of five thousand
pounds a year. Zulestein took charge of the robes. The Master of
the Horse was Auverquerque, a gallant soldier, who united the
blood of Nassau to the blood of Horn, and who wore with just
pride a costly sword presented to him by the States General in
acknowledgment of the courage with which he had, on the bloody
day of Saint Dennis, saved the life of William.

The place of Vice Chamberlain to the Queen was given to a man who
had just become conspicuous in public life, and whose name will
frequently recur in the history of this reign. John Howe, or, as
he was more commonly called, Jack Howe, had been sent up to the
Convention by the borough of Cirencester. His appearance was that
of a man whose body was worn by the constant workings of a
restless and acrid mind. He was tall, lean, pale, with a haggard
eager look, expressive at once of flightiness and of shrewdness.
He had been known, during several years, as a small poet; and
some of the most savage lampoons which were handed about the
coffeehouses were imputed to him. But it was in the House of