ces too. He
tried the same thing with the corporations, and also (though not so
successfully) with the Lord Lieutenants of counties. To terrify the
people into the endurance of all these measures, he kept an army of
fifteen thousand men encamped on Hounslow Heath, where mass was openly
performed in the General's tent, and where priests went among the
soldiers endeavouring to persuade them to become Catholics. For
circulating a paper among those men advising them to be true to their
religion, a Protestant clergyman, named JOHNSON, the chaplain of the late
Lord Russell, was actually sentenced to stand three times in the pillory,
and was actually whipped from Newgate to Tyburn. He dismissed his own
brother-in-law from his Council because he was a Protestant, and made a
Privy Councillor of the before-mentioned Father Petre. He handed Ireland
over to RICHARD TALBOT, EARL OF TYRCONNELL, a worthless, dissolute knave,
who played the same game there for his master, and who played the deeper
game for himself of one day putting it under the protection of the French
King. In going to these extremities, every man of sense and judgment
among the Catholics, from the Pope to a porter, knew that the King was a
mere bigoted fool, who would undo himself and the cause he sought to
advance; but he was deaf to all reason, and, happily for England ever
afterwards, went tumbling off his throne in his own blind way.

A spirit began to arise in the country, which the besotted blunderer
little expected. He first found it out in the University of Cambridge.
Having made a Catholic a dean at Oxford without any opposition, he tried
to make a monk a master of arts at Cambridge: which attempt the
University resisted, and defeated him. He then went back to his
favourite Oxford. On the death of the President of Magdalen College, he
commanded that there should be elected to succeed him, one MR. ANTHONY
FARMER, whose only recommendation was, that he was of the King's
religion. The University plucked up courage at last, and refused. The
King substituted another man, and it still refused, resolving to stand by
its own election of a MR. HOUGH. The dull tyrant, upon this, punished
Mr. Hough, and five-and-twenty more, by causing them to be expelled and
declared incapable of holding any church preferment; then he proceeded to
what he supposed to be his highest step, but to what was, in fact, his
last plunge head-foremost in his tumble off his throne.