Nonjurors' Oratories in London

"Nothing, my lord, appears so dreadful to me, as the account I have of the barefaced impudence of your Jacobite congregations in London. The marching of the King's forces to and fro through the most factious parts of the kingdom, must (in time) put an end to our little country squabbles; but your *fifty churches* of nonjurors could never be thus daring, were they not sure of the protection of some high ally." —Letter from Bishop Nicholson to Archbishop Wake, dated Rose, Sept. 20. 1716. in Ellis's *Letters*, Series iii.