The contempt that was beginning to manifest itself towards the luckless James in his English subjects was no more plainly manifested than in the London citizens.

Elizabeth, with all her follies and her faults, had been the idol of London, as her father before her.

Now a reaction had set in, and no scorn could be too great for her undignified and presumptuous successor.

This contempt was well shown by the dry reply of the Lord Mayor some few years later, when the King, in a rage at being refused a loan he desired of the citizens, threatened to remove his Court and all records and jewels from the Tower and Westminster Hall to another place, as a mark of his displeasure.

The Lord Mayor listened calmly to this terrible threat, and then made submissive answer.
"Your Majesty hath power to do what you please," he said, "and your city of London will obey accordingly; but she humbly desires that when your Majesty shall remove your Courts, you would graciously please to leave the Thames behind you." But to return to the house on the bridge and the occupants of Martin Holt's parlour.