CATHOLICISM IN NEW  YORK.
 

CHAPTER    XVIII.
 

EFFECTS  OF  THE MEASURES  OP  JAMES  IL

Catholicism in New York.—Absuhd Alarms. — Persecution in Framce. — The
Assembly abolished in New York. — Sir Edmund Andros in Boston. — Connecti¬
cut AND HER TWO WOOERS. — CONNECTICUT LOSES HER CHARTER. — ThB  PoST-KoUTE.

— G OVERNOR Dongan a Statesman. — Albany in Danger. — The Engmsh, French,
AND Iroquois. — Consolidation of the Colonies. — New York swallowed by New
England.—Sir Edmund Andros. — The Exiled Huguenots.—Extraordinary
Acts of James IL—The Seven Bishops. —Birth of the Prince of Wales. —
Mary, Princess of Orange.—The Character of William III.—The Political
Marriage. — A Domestic Romance.—William's Purposes.—William's Expedi¬
tion to England.—Revolution in England.—The King's Despair. —Abdica¬
tion OF THE Throne by James II. —William's Reception in London, —"William
AND Mary crowned Sovereigns op England.
 

IT would seem as if the whole world was just at this moment in a
religious ferment. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685,
caused a simultaneous cry of grief and rage through the whole of
Erotestant Europe. The courts of Spain and Eome, not usually
backward in applauding a vigorous war upon heresy, were amazed at the
injustice of the French king, and took the side of religious liberty. Eng¬
land was filled with dismay. She began immediately to scrutinize the
recent acts of her own king. He had ordered the organization of a large
mUitary force, and, in defiance of the law, had officered it chiefly with
Eoman Catholics. Why might it not be employed in England for the
same wretched work which the dragoons of Louis had performed in
Erance ? James had pubUcly promised to respect the privileges of his
Protestant subjects; but had not Louis in like manner pledged himself ?
Was there, after all, any reliance to be placed upon kings ?

New York caught the alarm, and suffered, as a feeble chUd, much
more severely than its parent. The rumor was started that James had
communicated to Governor Dongan an intention to establish the Eoman
Catholic reUgion there.    A new Latin teacher who was said to be a Jesuit