It was in strict conformity with the auspicious precedent set after the battle of Bosworth by Henry the Seventh.

It would also quiet the scruples which many respectable people felt as to the lawfulness of transferring allegiance from one ruler to another.

Neither the law of England nor the Church of England recognised any right in subjects to depose a sovereign.

But no jurist, no divine, had ever denied that a nation, overcome in war, might, without sin, submit to the decision of the God of battles.

Thus, after the Chaldean conquest, the most pious and patriotic Jews did not think that they violated their duty to their native King by serving with loyalty the new master whom Providence had set over them.