Oxford and Cambridge, Westminster, Winchester, and Eton, are under priestly government.

By the priesthood will to a great extent be formed the character of the nobility and gentry of the next generation.
Of the higher clergy some have in their gift numerous and valuable benefices; others have the privilege of appointing judges who decide grave questions affecting the liberty, the property, the reputation of their Majesties' subjects.

And is an order thus favoured by the state to give no guarantee to the state?
On what principle can it be contended that it is unnecessary to ask from an Archbishop of Canterbury or from a Bishop of Durham that promise of fidelity to the government which all allow that it is necessary to demand from every layman who serves the Crown in the humblest office.

Every exciseman, every collector of the customs, who refuses to swear, is to be deprived of his bread.

For these humble martyrs of passive obedience and hereditary right nobody has a word to say.