With these were mingled thousands of idle apprentices, who wished merely for the excitement of a riot.

Even men of peaceable and honest habits were impelled by religious animosity to join the lawless part of the population.

For the cry of No Popery, a cry which has more than once endangered the existence of London, was the signal for outrage and rapine.

First the rabble fell on the Roman Catholic places of worship.

The buildings were demolished.