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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
d in the revocation of the edict of Nantz, and sought to Chap. XVII.} intrust civil and military power to the hands of Roman Catholics. The bishops had unanimously voted against his exclusion; and, as the badge of the Church of England was obedience, he for a season courted the alliance of the fairest of the spotted kind, the only tolerable Protestant sect. To win her favor for Roman Catholics, he was willing to persecute Protestant dissenters. This is the period of the influence of Rochester. The Church of England refused the alliance. The 1687 1688 king would now put no confidence in any zealous Protestant; he applauded the bigotry of Louis XIV., from whom he solicited money. I hope, said he, the king of France will aid me, and that we together shall do great things for religion; and the established church became the object of his implacable hatred. Her day of grace was past. The royal favor was withheld, that it might silently waste and dissolve like snows in spring.