The replies to the Doctor, the vindications of the Doctor, the pasquinades on the Doctor, would fill a library.

The clamour redoubled when it was known that the convert had not only been reappointed Master of the Temple, but had accepted the Deanery of Saint Paul's, which had become vacant in consequence of the deprivation of Sancroft and the promotion of Tillotson.

The rage of the nonjurors amounted almost to frenzy.

Was it not enough, they asked, to desert the true and pure Church, in this her hour of sorrow and peril, without also slandering her?
It was easy to understand why a greedy, cowardly hypocrite should refuse to take the oaths to the usurper as long as it seemed probable that the rightful King would be restored, and should make haste to swear after the battle of the Boyne.

Such tergiversation in times of civil discord was nothing new.