He considered all who remained in communion with her as heathens and publicans.

He nicknamed Tillotson the Mufti.

In the room which was used as a chapel at Fressingfield no person who had taken the oaths, or who attended the ministry of any divine who had taken the oaths, was suffered to partake of the sacred bread and wine.

A distinction, however, was made between two classes of offenders.

A layman who remained in communion with the Church was permitted to be present while prayers were read, and was excluded only from the highest of Christian mysteries.