At Caen blood had even flowed in the very cathedral, where the nonjuring priest disputed the altar with the conforming pastor.

The same disorders threatened to spread over all parts of the kingdom: every where were to be seen two pastors and a divided flock.

Resentment, which already displayed itself in insult, of necessity soon arrived at bloodshed.

The one half of the people, disturbed in its faith, reverted to the aristocracy out of love for its worship.

The Assembly must thus alienate the popular element, which it had so recently caused to triumph over royalty.