[557] Wharton's celebrated song, with many additional verses, was chaunted more loudly than ever in all the streets of the capital.

The very sentinels who guarded the palace hummed, as they paced their rounds, "The English confusion to Popery drink, Lillibullero bullen a la." The secret presses of London worked without ceasing.

Many papers daily came into circulation by means which the magistracy could not discover, or would not check.

One of these has been preserved from oblivion by the skilful audacity with which it was written, and by the immense effect which it produced.

It purported to be a supplemental declaration under the hand and seal of the Prince of Orange: but it was written in a style very different from that of his genuine manifesto.