Nothing but the utter ruin of his victims would content him.

It was not enough that they were expelled from their homes and stripped of their revenues.

They found every walk of life towards which men of their habits could look for a subsistence closed against them with malignant care, and nothing left to them but the precarious and degrading resource of alms.
The Anglican clergy therefore, and that portion of the laity which was strongly attached to Protestant episcopacy, now regarded the King with those feelings which injustice aggravated by ingratitude naturally excites.

Yet had the Churchman still many scruples of conscience and honour to surmount before he could bring himself to oppose the government by force.

He had been taught that passive obedience was enjoined without restriction or exception by the divine law.