All ranks, all parties, all Protestant sects, made up that vast phalanx.

In the van were the Lords Spiritual and Temporal.

Then came the landed gentry and the clergy, both the Universities, all the Inns of Court, merchants, shopkeepers, farmers, the porters who plied in the streets of the great towns, the peasants who ploughed the fields.

The league against the King included the very foremast men who manned his ships, the very sentinels who guarded his palace.

The names of Whig and Tory were for a moment forgotten.