On the Sunday which followed the Queen's death her virtues were celebrated in almost every parish church of the Capital, and in almost every great meeting of nonconformists.

[552] The most estimable Jacobites respected the sorrow of William and the memory of Mary.

But to the fiercer zealots of the party neither the house of mourning nor the grave was sacred.

At Bristol the adherents of Sir John Knight rang the bells as if for a victory.

[553] It has often been repeated, and is not at all improbable, that a nonjuring divine, in the midst of the general lamentation, preached on the text, "Go; see now this cursed woman and bury her; for she is a King's daughter." It is certain that some of the ejected priests pursued her to the grave with invectives.