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King he describes him as ‘‘a wise, sober, valient, and rich 
monarch.” He alludes to the groundlessness of the outcry of 
cruelty when only one in a hundred of the prisoners had suffered 
the penalty of their crime. He concludes by desiring that there 
may be only two sides known in this country, those that are for 
King and Constitution and those who are for Popery and the 
Pretender. 
I shall next notice a sermon preached at Manchester on May 
8th, 1716 (in the chapel in Cross Street), by the Rev. James 
Grimshaw. After speaking of their providential deliverance 
from what he describes as the worst of the many bloody attempts 
to subvert the Protestant religion in the eleven reigns since the 
Reformation, he urges unity and readiness to meet the enemy. 
After congratulating them on their newly-restored meeting-house, 
he refers to the punishment meted out to the rebels, and does 
not think it a whit too severe, but, like all the Presbyterian 
writers of his time, has a lively sense of the great dangers they 
have so narrowly escaped. On the first anniversary of the victory 
at Preston, November 14th, 1716, the Rev. Jeremiah Aldred 
preached an able sermon in the Cross Street Chapel. After a 
brief history of the preceding thirty years he points out how “in 
these parts there was but a step between us and death.” The 
thanksgiving sermon preached on the second anniversary, No- 
vember 14th, 1717, was by the Rev. Charles Owen. This is a 
masterly and well-written address, which points out that had 
they—the rebels—succeeded ‘‘ they would have put a full period 
to all civil and religious Privileges, such a spreading ruin would 
have been the genuine issue of those fatal doctrines.” 
In 1718 the Rev. J. Mottershead was the preacher; and again, 
in 1719, we have a thanksgiving sermon from the Rev. Joshua 
Jones. 
In all of these discourses the clear fact is set forth that, in the 
minds of these mature and thoughtful men, should the Jacobite 
cause prevail, there was no doubt of the total loss of all rights 
and liberties, the utter ruin of their country, and that life itself 
would be in the utmost jeopardy. And on the other hand 
it is evident that they and their audience were and had been 
ready, as one of them says, to oppose the common enemy ‘“‘ even 
unto blood.” 
It would, I feel, be wearisome to go at further length into this 
question ; but let anyone who cares to get at the truth on this 
point read some of this literature, and carefully consider if he 
can then endorse the oft-repeated explanation of Dr. Hibbert- 
Ware of the reasons which prevented this High Church Tory 
party from performing their promise to join their Roman Catholic 
friends when the hour of trial came. Dr. Ware asserts—‘‘ The 
true cause of, the feeble support which, when the rebellion 
