The mob, then and ever since one of the fiercest in the kingdom, resisted.

Blows were exchanged, and serious hurts inflicted.
[107] The agitation was great in the capital, and greater in the City, properly so called, than at Westminster.

For the people of Westminster had been accustomed to see among them the private chapels of Roman Catholic Ambassadors: but the City had not, within living memory, been polluted by any idolatrous exhibition.

Now, however, the resident of the Elector Palatine, encouraged by the King, fitted up a chapel in Lime Street.

The heads of the corporation, though men selected for office on account of their known Toryism, protested against this proceeding, which, as they said, the ablest gentlemen of the long robe regarded as illegal.