Surely, if the title carried with it such power, those who maintained that James ought to be deprived of all power could not deny that he ought to be deprived of the title.
And how long was the anomalous government planned by the genius of Sancroft to last?
Every argument which could be urged for setting it up at all might be urged with equal force for retaining it to the end of time.

If the boy who had been carried into France was really born of the Queen, he would hereafter inherit the divine and indefeasible right to be called King.

The same right would very probably be transmitted from Papist to Papist through the whole of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Both the Houses had unanimously resolved that England should not be governed by a Papist.

It might well be, therefore, that, from generation to generation, Regents would continue to administer the government in the name of vagrant and mendicant Kings.