I tell you that there are still seven thousand of your Church who have not bowed the knee to Baal." The Bishops respectfully retired.

[365] That very evening the document which they had put into the hands of the King appeared word for word in print, was laid on the tables of all the coffeehouses, and was cried about the streets.
Everywhere the people rose from their beds, and came out to stop the hawkers.

It was said that the printer cleared a thousand pounds in a few hours by this penny broadside.

This is probably an exaggeration; but it is an exaggeration which proves that the sale was enormous.

How the petition got abroad is still a mystery.