Perhaps the nation, incensed against William, yet not reconciled to James, and distracted between hatred of foreigners and hatred of Jesuits, might prefer both to the Dutch King and to the Popish King one who was at once a native of our country and a member of our Church.

That this was the real explanation of Marlborough's dark and complicated plots was, as we have seen, firmly believed by some of the most zealous Jacobites, and is in the highest degree probable.

It is certain that during several years he had spared no efforts to inflame the army and the nation against the government.
But all was now changed.

Mary was gone.

By the Bill of Rights the Crown was entailed on Anne after the death of William.