The contrast between the new Declaration and the preceding Declaration excited, not without reason, general suspicion and contempt.

What confidence could be placed in the word of a Prince so unstable, of a Prince who veered from extreme to extreme?
In 1692 nothing would satisfy him but the heads and quarters of hundreds of poor ploughmen and boatmen who had, several years before, taken some rustic liberties with him at which his grandfather Henry the Fourth would have had a hearty laugh.

In 1693 the foulest and most ungrateful treasons were to be covered with oblivion.

Caermarthen expressed the general sentiment.

"I do not," he said, "understand all this.