The chief concessions which these Lords pressed the King to make were three.

He ought, they said, forthwith to dismiss all Roman Catholics from office, to separate himself wholly from France, and to grant an unlimited amnesty to those who were in arms against him.

The last of these propositions, it should seem, admitted of no dispute.

For, though some of those who were banded together against the King had acted towards him in a manner which might not unreasonably excite his bitter resentment, it was more likely that he would soon be at their mercy than that they would ever be at his.

It would have been childish to open a negotiation with William, and yet to denounce vengeance against men whom William could not without infamy abandon.