It cannot be said that he mistook the bounds of his prerogative because they had not been accurately ascertained.

For the truth is that he trespassed with a recent landmark full in his view.

Fifteen years before that time, a Declaration of Indulgence had been put forth by his brother with the advice of the Cabal.

That Declaration, when compared with the Declaration of James, might be called modest and cautious.

The Declaration of Charles dispensed only with penal laws.