At length passes for the king's Commissioners arrived; and the three Lords set out on their embassy.
They left the capital in a state of fearful distraction.

The passions which, during three troubled years, had been gradually gathering force, now, emancipated from the restraint of fear, and stimulated by victory and sympathy, showed themselves without disguise, even in the precincts of the royal dwelling.

The grand jury of Middlesex found a bill against the Earl of Salisbury for turning Papist.

[555] The Lord Mayor ordered the houses of the Roman Catholics of the City to be searched for arms.
The mob broke into the house of one respectable merchant who held the unpopular faith, in order to ascertain whether he had not run a mine from his cellars under the neighbouring parish church, for the purpose of blowing up parson and congregation.

[556] The hawkers bawled about the streets a hue and cry after Father Petre, who had withdrawn himself, and not before it was time, from his apartments in the palace.