Meanwhile, in London and all over the country, money was collected for the support of the ejected Fellows.

The Princess of Orange, to the great joy of all Protestants, subscribed two hundred pounds.

Still, however, the King held on his course.

The expulsion of the Fellows was soon followed by the expulsion of a crowd of Demies.
All this time the new President was fast sinking under bodily and mental disease.

He had made a last feeble effort to serve the government by publishing, at the very time when the college was in a state of open rebellion against his authority, a defence of the Declaration of Indulgence, or rather a defence of the doctrine of transubstantiation.
This piece called forth many answers, and particularly one from Burnet, written with extraordinary vigour and acrimony.