Several messengers were sent to Rochester with letters for the King.

He was assured that his interests would be strenuously defended, if only he could, at this last moment, make up his mind to renounce designs abhorred by his people.

Some respectable Roman Catholics followed him, in order to implore him, for the sake of their common faith, not to carry the vain contest further.

[613] The advice was good; but James was in no condition to take it.

His understanding had always been dull and feeble; and, such as it was, womanish tremors and childish fancies now disabled him from using it.