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Nevertheless, the Scottish Indulgence aroused the country. 

 Pulpit and press began a widespread agitation. Halifax was most 

 active with the Episcopalians in London, while Bishop Burnet 

 met with the forces of the opposition in Holland. Everywhere 

 Anglican doctors strove to stir the people, — Anglicans and Non- 

 conformists. They besought the former to forget past injuries 

 and to unite for defence against the papists. They pointed out 

 to the latter that the Indulgence was really no favor at all because 

 it was in actual fact a step on the road to Roman Catholicism. 96 

 The subsequent behavior of James and its effect upon the country 

 is characteristically described by John Evelyn: 97 



March 3, 1687: Most of the greate officers, both in the court and country, 

 Lords and others, were dismissed, as they would not promise his majesty their con- 

 sent to the repeal of the Test and Penal Statutes against Popish Recusants. To 

 this end most of the Parliament men were spoken to in His Majesty's closet, and 

 such as refused, if in place of office of trust, civil and military, were put out of their 

 employments. This was a time of great trial, but hardly one of them assented, 

 which put the Popish interest much backward. The English clergy everywhere 

 preached boldly against their superstition and errors, and were wonderfully fol- 

 lowed by the people. Not one considerable proselyte was made in all this time. 

 The party were exceedingly put to the worst by the preaching and writing of the 

 Protestants in many excellent treatises, evincing the doctrine and discipline of the 

 reformed religion, to the manifest disadvantage of their adversaries. 



Dykvelt arrived in England February 23, 1687. 98 His cre- 

 dentials from the Prince were addressed to Lord Halifax, but the 

 latter stood in formal disgrace at the English court. This naturally 

 prevented a meeting, but a letter from Lord Mordaunt helped 

 to arrange matters: 



Many lords, but particularly my Lord Halifax, wished to wait on you. He 

 wished to send his brother, Mr. Saville, with his compliments to you, who still 



96 Mazure, p. 213. 



97 Evelyn, Diary, vol. hi, p. 33, March 3, 1687. 



98 Ellis, The Ellis Correspondence; p. 242. 



Dalrymple, Memoirs, Letter of King James to the Prince of Orange, February 

 18-March 1, 1687, from Whitehall, vol. ii, Appendix to Part I, p. 181. 



The statement of General Viscount Wolseley in his Life of John Churchill, 

 Duke of Marlborough that Dykvelt arrived in England only three days before his 

 first audience with the King on March is quite evidently wrong. See Life of 

 Churchill, p. 379, note 2. 



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