He might have called together his Council on Saturday morning, and before night it might have been known throughout London and the suburbs that he had yielded to the intreaties of the fathers of the Church.

The Saturday, however, passed over without any sign of relenting on the part of the government, and the Sunday arrived, a day long remembered.
In the City and Liberties of London were about a hundred parish churches.

In only four of these was the Order in Council obeyed.

At Saint Gregory's the Declaration was read by a divine of the name of Martin.

As soon as he uttered the first words, the whole congregation rose and withdrew.