When they met for the first time, Jeffreys announced the royal pleasure.

The refugees, he said, were too generally enemies of monarchy and episcopacy.

If they wished for relief, they must become members of the Church of England, and must take the sacrament from the hands of his chaplain.

Many exiles, who had come full of gratitude and hope to apply for succour, heard their sentence, and went brokenhearted away.

[80] May was now approaching; and that month had been fixed for the meeting of the Houses: but they were again prorogued to November.