She was now, he conceived, threatened by a danger as great as that of the preceding year.

The Latitudinarians of 1689 were not less eager to humble and to ruin her than the Jesuits of 1688.
The Toleration Act had done for the Dissenters quite as much as was compatible with her dignity and security; and nothing more ought to be conceded, not the hem of one of her vestments, not an epithet from the beginning to the end of her Liturgy.

All the reproaches which had been thrown on the ecclesiastical commission of James were transferred to the ecclesiastical commission of William.

The two commissions indeed had nothing but the name in common.

Put the name was associated with illegality and oppression, with the violation of dwellings and the confiscation of freeholds, and was therefore assiduously sounded with no small effect by the tongues of the spiteful in the ears of the ignorant.
The King too, it was said, was not sound.