The King was still more anxious to ascertain the temper of the Prelates.

If they were hostile to him, his throne was indeed in danger.
But it could not be.

There was something monstrous in the supposition that any Bishop of the Church of England could rebel against his Sovereign.

Compton was called into the royal closet, and was asked whether he believed that there was the slightest ground for the Prince's assertion.

The Bishop was in a strait; for he was himself one of the seven who had signed the invitation; and his conscience, not a very enlightened conscience, would not suffer him, it seems, to utter a direct falsehood.