insulted, spat upon, and only brought by a circuitous route
to the Deanery, amid the execrations of the mob. On the 5th
of November the Bishops of Exeter and Winchester were burnt
in effigy close to their own palace gates. Archbishop
Howley's chaplain complained that a dead cat had been thrown
at him, when the Archbishop--a man of apostolic
meekness--replied: "You should be thankful that it was not a
live one."

The people had reason for this conduct--as you will always find they
have, if you take the trouble to inquire. Let me quote another member
of the English ruling classes, Mr. Conrad Noel, who gives "an
instance, of the procedure of Church and State about this period":

In 1832 six agricultural labourers in South Dorsetshire, led
by one of their class, George Loveless, in receipt of 9s. a
week each, demanded the 10s. rate of wages usual in the
neighbourhood. The result was a reduction to 8s. An appeal
was made to the chairman of the local bench, who decided
that they must work for whatever their masters chose to pay
them. The parson, who had at first promised his help, now
turned against them, and the masters promptly reduced the
wage to 7s., with a threat of further reduction. Loveless
then formed an agricultural union, for which all seven were
arrested, treated as convicts, and committed to the assizes.
The prison chaplain tried to bully them into submission. The
judge determined to convict them, and directed that they
should be tried for mutiny under an act of George III,
specially passed to deal with the naval mutiny at the Nore.
The grand jury were landowners, and the petty jury were