The Bishop became a mark for the whole vengeance of the government.

[96] The King felt more painfully than ever the want of that tremendous engine which had once coerced refractory ecclesiastics.

He probably knew that, for a few angry words uttered against his father's government, Bishop Williams had been suspended by the High Commission from all ecclesiastical dignities and functions.

The design of reviving that formidable tribunal was pushed on more eagerly than ever.

In July London was alarmed by the news that the King had, in direct defiance of two acts of Parliament drawn in the strongest terms, entrusted the whole government of the Church to seven Commissioners.