His religion had been thought a fatal disqualification.

A worthless adventurer, whose only recommendation was that he was a Papist, was preferred.

Dunfermline continued, during a short time, to make his appearance in the circle which surrounded the Prince whom he had served too well; but it was to no purpose.

The bigots who ruled the Court refused to the ruined and expatriated Protestant Lord the means of subsistence; he died of a broken heart; and they refused him even a grave.

[424] The insults daily offered at Saint Germains to the Protestant religion produced a great effect in England.