The alarm soon affected the revenue.

[171] Clarendon attempted to inspire the dismayed settlers with a confidence which he was himself far from feeling.

He assured them that their property would be held sacred, and that, to his certain knowledge, the King was fully determined to maintain the act of settlement which guaranteed their right to the soil.

But his letters to England were in a very different strain.

He ventured even to expostulate with the King, and, without blaming His Majesty's intention of employing Roman Catholics, expressed a strong opinion that the Roman Catholics who might be employed should be Englishmen.