Certainly His Majesty has wonderfully established his position; and yet, if you understand me, there is a great and growing disaffection.

It is the Catholic Faith that they fear; and I cannot help thinking that some victims may be required again presently, though I do not know what they can allege against us.

There is a deal of feeling, too, against the Queen; she has borne no children--that is true; but the main part of it arises from her religion: and so with the Duke of York also.

Certainly we are in the fashion in one way: but those who are on the top of the wave must always look to come down suddenly." Here again, Father Whitbread did not tell me anything that I did not know; yet he put matters together as I had not heard them put before; and he seemed to me altogether a shrewd kind of man whose judgment I might very well rely upon; and as we went up the Strand he spoke again of the Queen.
"His Majesty hath been urged again and again to divorce her; but he will not.

He said to the Duke himself in my hearing one day that an innocent woman should never suffer through him--which is good hearing.