... and Overton; was committed,[f] by order of the council, to close custody in the Tower.[2]It had been determined to send to Ireland a division of twelve thousand men; and the regiments to beemployed ... continued to act his accustomed part. Whenever he rose in the house, it was to recommend moderation, to express the doubts which agitated his mind, to protest that, if he assented to harshand ... the denial of that to him, which by ancient custom was due to many of his subjects; and rather than submit to the humiliation, he chose to diminish the number of the dishes,and to take his meals...