He had seen with still deeper displeasure the countenance given by a large section of that party to the pretensions of Monmouth.
The opposition, it seemed, wished first to make the crown of England not worth the wearing, and then to place it on the head of a bastard and impostor.

At the same time the Prince's religious system differed widely from that which was the badge of the Tories.

They were Arminians and Prelatists.

They looked down on the Protestant Churches of the Continent, and regarded every line of their own liturgy and rubric as scarcely less sacred than the gospels.

His opinions touching the metaphysics of theology were Calvinistic.