Sunderland was thrown into prison, and remained there till an order for his release arrived from Whitehall.

He then proceeded to Amsterdam, and there changed his religion again.

His second apostasy edified his wife as much as his first apostasy had edified his master.
The Countess wrote to assure her pious friends in England that her poor dear lord's heart had at last been really touched by divine grace, and that, in spite of all her afflictions, she was comforted by seeing him so true a convert.

We may, however, without any violation of Christian charity, suspect that he was still the same false, callous, Sunderland who, a few months before, had made Bonrepaux shudder by denying the existence of a God, and had, at the same time, won the heart of James by pretending to believe in transubstantiation.

In a short time the banished man put forth an apology for his conduct.