"To enter my protest, Sir," answered Granard, "against the repeal of the Act of Settlement." "You are right," said the King: "but I am fallen into the hands of people who will ram that and much more down my throat." [226] James yielded to the will of the Commons; but the unfavourable impression which his short and feeble resistance had made upon them was not to be removed by his submission.

They regarded him with profound distrust; they considered him as at heart an Englishman; and not a day passed without some indication of this feeling.

They were in no haste to grant him a supply.

One party among them planned an address urging him to dismiss Melfort as an enemy of their nation.

Another party drew up a bill for deposing all the Protestant Bishops, even the four who were then actually sitting in Parliament.