Note 29 — Chapter V · NATIONAL AFFAIRS—1685–1688.

John Wesley says of him:—“He was in every respect a consummate hypocrite, equally void of piety, mercy, honesty, and gratitude. Under a cover of gentleness he was cruel and revengeful to a high degree. He was abandoned to all vices. A worse man never sat on the English throne.”—Wesley’s History of England, vol. iii., p. 316.