When she attended divine service at Saint James's Church she found that the rector had been forbidden to show her the customary marks of respect, to bow to her from his pulpit, and to send a copy of his text to be laid on her cushion.

Even the bellman of Piccadilly, it was said, perhaps falsely, was ordered not to chaunt her praises in his doggrel verse under the windows of Berkeley House.

[190] That Anne was in the wrong is clear; but it is not equally clear that the King and Queen were in the right.

They should have either dissembled their displeasure, or openly declared the true reasons for it.
Unfortunately, they let every body see the punishment, and they let scarcely any body know the provocation.

They should have remembered that, in the absence of information about the cause of a quarrel, the public is naturally inclined to side with the weaker party, and that this inclination is likely to be peculiarly strong when a sister is, without any apparent reason, harshly treated by a sister.