"Another time," he said, with a gloomy look, "I shall not do you the honour to consult you." [443] It was plain that, if he determined to persist in his designs, he must remodel his army.

Yet materials for that purpose he could not find in our island.

The members of his Church, even in the districts where they were most numerous, were a small minority of the people.

Hatred of Popery had spread through all classes of his Protestant subjects, and had become the ruling passion even of ploughmen and artisans.

But there was another part of his dominions where a very different spirit animated the great body of the population.