Not one parish priest in fifty complied with the Order in Council .-- In the great diocese of Chester, including the county of Lancaster, only three clergymen could be prevailed on by Cartwright to obey the King.

In the diocese of Norwich are many hundreds of parishes.

In only four of these was the Declaration read.

The courtly Bishop of Rochester could not overcome the scruples of the minister of the ordinary of Chatham, who depended on the government for bread.

There is still extant a pathetic letter which this honest priest sent to the Secretary of the Admiralty.