The Papists were trembling for their lives and for their fortunes.

No one knew the policy of the new Queen.

All felt that it was like enough she would inflict bloody chastisement on those who had been the enemies of herself and of her Protestant subjects.

Even as the Trevlyn brothers had passed through the streets of the city on their way out, they had been hissed and hooted and even pelted by the crowd, some amongst which knew well the part they had played in the recent persecutions.

They had been not a little alarmed by threats and menaces hurled at them even in the precincts of St.James's, and it had become very plain to them that they would speedily become the objects of private if not of public vengeance.