To them he owed his crown.

But for their strenuous opposition to the Exclusion Bill he would have been a banished man.

He had repeatedly and emphatically acknowledged his obligation to them, and had vowed to maintain them in all their legal rights.

If he could not be bound by ties like these, it must be evident that, where his superstition was concerned, no tie of gratitude or of honour could bind him.

To trust him would thenceforth be impossible; and, if his people could not trust him, what member of his Church could they trust?
He was not supposed to be constitutionally or habitually treacherous.