The Royalist shuddered at the thought that he was allied with all that from his youth up he had most hated, with old parliamentary Captains who had stormed his country house, with old parliamentary Commissioners who had sequestrated his estate, with men who had plotted the Rye House butchery and headed the Western rebellion.

That beloved Church, too, for whose sake he had, after a painful struggle, broken through his allegiance to the throne, was she really in safety?
Or had he rescued her from one enemy only that she might be exposed to another?
The Popish priests, indeed, were in exile, in hiding, or in prison.

No Jesuit or Benedictine who valued his life now dared to show himself in the habit of his order.

But the Presbyterian and Independent teachers went in long procession to salute the chief of the government, and were as graciously received as the true successors of the Apostles.

Some schismatics avowed the hope that every fence which excluded them from ecclesiastical preferment would soon be levelled; that the Articles would be softened down; that the Liturgy would be garbled; that Christmas would cease to be a feast; that Good Friday would cease to be a fast; that canons on whom no Bishop had ever laid his hand would, without the sacred vestment of white linen, distribute, in the choirs of Cathedrals, the eucharistic bread and wine to communicants lolling on benches.