On his arrival in Armenia he found that his patrons were both dead.
His English patrons were liberal.
The state itself had its own Lares, called praestites, the protecting patrons and guardians of the city.
The great majority of the people were excluded as Roman Catholics from the franchise; two-thirds of the members of the House of Commons were returned by small boroughs at the absolute disposal of single patrons, whose support was bought by a lavish distribution of peerages and pensions.
His patrons had been taken away by death, or estranged by the riotous profusion with which he squandered their bounty, and the ungrateful insolence with which he rejected their advice.