Barillon, more sagacious, informed Lewis that the King of England was under a delusion that the progress had done no real good, and that those very gentlemen of Worcestershire and Shropshire who had thought it their duty to receive their Sovereign and their guest with every mark of honour would be found as refractory as ever when the question of the test should come on.

[293] On the road the royal train was joined by two courtiers who in temper and opinions differed widely from each other.

Penn was at Chester on a pastoral tour.

His popularity and authority among his brethren had greatly declined since he had become a tool of the King and of the Jesuits.

[294] He was, however, most graciously received by James, and, on the Sunday, was permitted to harangue in the tennis court, while Cartwright preached in the Cathedral, and while the King heard mass at an altar which had been decked in the Shire Hall.