Burning with resentment, flushed with victory and hope, they would hear of no compromise.

Nothing less than the deposition of their enemy would content them: nor can it be disputed that herein they were perfectly consistent.

They had exerted themselves, nine years earlier, to exclude him from the throne, because they thought it likely that he would be a bad King.

It could therefore scarcely be expected that they would willingly leave him on the throne, now that he had turned out a far worse King than any reasonable man could have anticipated.
On the other hand, not a few of William's followers were zealous Tories, who had, till very recently, held the doctrine of nonresistance in the most absolute form, but whose faith in that doctrine had, for a moment, given way to the strong passions excited by the ingratitude of the King and by the peril of the Church.

No situation could be more painful or perplexing than that of the old Cavalier who found himself in arms against the throne.