Yet still James continued to grant commissions to unqualified persons; and speedily it was announced that he was determined to be no longer bound by the Test Act, that he hoped to induce the Parliament to repeal that Act, but that, if the Parliament proved refractory, he would not the less have his own way.
As soon as this was known, a deep murmur, the forerunner of a tempest, gave him warning that the spirit before which his grandfather, his father, and his brother had been compelled to recede, though dormant, was not extinct.

Opposition appeared first in the cabinet.

Halifax did not attempt to conceal his disgust and alarm.

At the Council board he courageously gave utterance to those feelings which, as it soon appeared, pervaded the whole nation.

None of his colleagues seconded him; and the subject dropped.