An extraordinary aid of a hundred and fourteen thousand pounds sterling was granted to the Crown.

Severe laws were enacted against the Jacobites.

The legislation on ecclesiastical matters was as Erastian as William himself could have desired.

An Act was passed requiring all ministers of the Established Church to swear fealty to their Majesties, and directing the General Assembly to receive into communion those Episcopalian ministers, not yet deprived, who should declare that they conformed to the Presbyterian doctrine and discipline.

[417] Nay, the Estates carried adulation so far as to make it their humble request to the King that he would be pleased to confer a Scotch peerage on his favourite Portland.