After his marriage with the Princess Mary, he formed an acquaintance with English Divines. Dr. Hooper became chaplain to the Princess, on the recommendation of Archbishop Sancroft; and he remained in office a year and a half. The chaplain found Her Royal Highness reading works favourable to Dissenters; to counteract their tendency, he recommended works of another description. One day the Prince observed his wife with the pages of Eusebius and Hooker open on her table, when he exclaimed, “I suppose Dr. Hooker persuades you to read these books?” She had at first no chapel of her own for Divine worship; at the Doctor’s request, a room was fitted up, with a communion-table elevated on steps. The Prince, as he saw them being made, rudely kicked at them, asking what they meant. Informed on the point, he answered “with a hum.” After the chapel had been fitted up, he never attended Divine service there; and as this chaplain talked about the Popish Plot and the indulgence of Dissenters in terms less favourable to the latter than His Highness liked, he bluntly said, “Well, Dr. Hooper, you will never be a Bishop;” and on another occasion remarked if he had ever “anything to do with England, Dr. Hooper should be Dr. Hooper still.”[5] Ken succeeded Hooper in 1679; we have no particulars of his relations with William, but those relations do not seem to have been very cordial. Each of the clergymen now mentioned belonged to the High Church party, and William could not agree with either, so that the end of Ken’s connection with the Dutch Court produced satisfaction on both sides. Yet the conduct of this excellent man “gained him entire credit and high esteem with the Princess, whom to his death he distinguished by the title of his Mistress.”[6]