The writer did not attempt to disguise the danger which those who disobeyed the royal mandate would incur: but he set forth in a lively manner the still greater danger of submission.
"If we read the Declaration," said he, "we fall to rise no more.

We fall unpitied and despised.

We fall amidst the curses of a nation whom our compliance will have ruined." Some thought that this paper came from Holland.

Others attributed it to Sherlock.

But Prideaux, Dean of Norwich, who was a principal agent in distributing it, believed it to be the work of Halifax.
The conduct of the prelates was rapturously extolled by the general voice: but some murmurs were heard.