could not be hostile to holy men who pushed their devotion to the Virgin to the extent of manufacturing eunuchs.

In 1688 there was a change of dynasty in England: Orange supplanted Stuart.

William III.

replaced James II.
James II.

went away to die in exile, miracles were performed on his tomb, and his relics cured the Bishop of Autun of fistula--a worthy recompense of the Christian virtues of the prince.
William, having neither the same ideas nor the same practices as James, was severe to the Comprachicos.