Nevertheless a few of her prelates and priests continued for a time to teach what they had taught in the days of the Exclusion Bill.

But it was at the peril of life or limb that they exercised their functions.

Every wearer of a cassock was a mark for the insults and outrages of soldiers and Rapparees.

In the country his house was robbed, and he was fortunate if it was not burned over his head.

He was hunted through the streets of Dublin with cries of "There goes the devil of a heretic." Sometimes he was knocked down: sometimes he was cudgelled, [235] The rulers of the University of Dublin, trained in the Anglican doctrine of passive obedience, had greeted James on his first arrival at the Castle, and had been assured by him that he would protect them in the enjoyment of their property and their privileges.