Sound doctrine this, but it was all forgotten in the frenzy of the "No Popery" movement a few months later. Punch, in a poem on "Consolation amid Controversy," gives thanks that the days of persecution are past:—
We've now some sharpish mutual slanging,
But, Heaven be thanked, there is no hanging!
No axe, no chopping-block, no drawing,
But only just a little jawing.
There's no Jack Ketch his business plying,
People beheading, throttling, frying.
Punch, and he says it without boasting,
Does all the cutting up and roasting.