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symbol Great care was however taken to prevent the Whigs from growing desperate, for all conformists among them were kept in the present Ministry in the same Manner that the Conformable Torys had been suffer'd to remain in the Whig administration; thus Ld. Shrewsbury was rather more caress'd than ever, & Hambden was not only continu'd in the Treasury, but Made Chancellor of the