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HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

CHAP.

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gathered round the market crosses where the King and Queenwere proclaimed. The professional pride both of the clergyand of the army had been deeply wounded. The doctrine ofnon-resistance had been dear to the Anglican divines. It wastheir distinguishing badge. It was their favourite theme. Ifwe are to judge by that portion of their oratory which has comedown to us, they had preached about the duty of passiveobedience at least as often and as zealously as about the Trinityor the Atonement.* Their attachment to their political creedhad indeed been severely tried, and had, during a short time,wavered. But with the tyranny of James the bitter feelingwhich that tyranny had excited among them had passed away.The parson of a parish was naturally unwilling to join inwhat was really a triumph over those principles which, duringtwenty eight years, his flock had heard him proclaim on everyanniversary of the Martyrdom and on every anniversary of theRestoration.

The soldiers, too, were discontented. They hated Poperyindeed; and they had not loved the banished King. But theykeenly felt that, in the short campaign which had decidedthe fate of their country, theirs had been an inglorious part.Forty fine regiments, a regular army such as had never beforemarched to battle under the royal standard of England, hadretreated precipitately before an invader, and had then, withouta struggle, submitted to him. That great force had beenabsolutely of no account in the late change, had done nothingtowards keeping William out, and had done nothing towardsbringing him in. The clowns, who, armed with pitchforks andmounted on carthorses, had straggled in the train of Lovelace

* “I may be positive says a writer who had been educated at West-minster School, “where I heard one sermon of repentance, faith, and therenewing of the Holy Ghost, I heard three of the other; and ’tis hard tosay whether Jesus Christ or King Charles the First wore oftcner mentionedand magnified. 11 Bisset’s Modern Fanatick, 1710.