The old Cavaliers would have flocked to the royal standard.

There would probably have been in all the three kingdoms a civil war as long and fierce as that of the preceding generation.

While that war was raging in the British Isles, what might not Lewis attempt on the Continent?
And what hope would there be for Holland, drained of her troops and abandoned by her Stadtholder?
William therefore contented himself for the present with taking measures to unite and animate that mighty opposition of which he had become the head.

This was not difficult.

The fall of the Hydes had excited throughout England strange alarm and indignation: Men felt that the question now was, not whether Protestantism should be dominant, but whether it should be tolerated.