His place was now most unwisely supplied by a costly and ostentatious embassy, offensive in the highest degree to the people of England, and by no means welcome to the court of Rome.

Castelmaine had it in charge to demand a Cardinal's hat for his confederate Petre.
About the same time the King began to show, in an unequivocal manner, the feeling which he really entertained towards the banished Huguenots.
While he had still hoped to cajole his Parliament into submission and to become the head of an European coalition against France, he had affected to blame the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and to pity the unhappy men whom persecution had driven from their country.

He had caused it to be announced that, at every church in the kingdom, a collection would be made under his sanction for their benefit.

A proclamation on this subject had been drawn up in terms which might have wounded the pride of a sovereign less sensitive and vainglorious than Lewis.

But all was now changed.