James, who wanted neither the prayers of heretics nor the advice of Parliaments, was bitterly disappointed.

After a long altercation, "I have done," he said, "I will urge you no further.

Since you will not help me, I must trust to myself and to my own arms." [515] The Bishops had hardly left the royal presence, when a courier arrived with the news that on the preceding day the Prince of Orange had landed in Devonshire.

During the following week London was violently agitated.
On Sunday, the eleventh of November, a rumour was circulated that knives, gridirons, and caldrons, intended for the torturing of heretics, were concealed in the monastery which had been established under the King's protection at Clerkenwell.

Great multitudes assembled round the building, and were about to demolish it, when a military force arrived.
The crowd was dispersed, and several of the rioters were slain.