To his policy the English Roman Catholics owed three years of lawless and insolent triumph, and a hundred and forty years of subjection and degradation.
Many members of his Church held commissions in the newly raised regiments.

This breach of the law for a time passed uncensured: for men were not disposed to note every irregularity which was committed by a King suddenly called upon to defend his crown and his life against rebels.

But the danger was now over.

The insurgents had been vanquished and punished.

Their unsuccessful attempt had strengthened the government which they had hoped to overthrow.