After the Restoration, when her power was at the height, she had breathed nothing hut vengeance.

She had encouraged, urged, almost compelled the Stuarts to requite with perfidious ingratitude the recent services of the Presbyterians.

Had she, in that season of her prosperity, pleaded, as became her, for her enemies, she might now, in her distress, have found them her friends.
Perhaps it was not yet too late.

Perhaps she might still be able to turn the tactics of her faithless oppressor against himself.

There was among the Anglican clergy a moderate party which had always felt kindly towards the Protestant Dissenters.