The outspokenness of the Nonjurors at this period grew more audacious than ever. Their enemies threatened to rout ‘the diabolical wretches’ from their chapels, and the Nonjurors replied, in their papers, with a ‘Come, if you dare!’ The latter prayed for ‘the King,’ without naming him. On one Sunday, in the chapel in the Savoy, a Whig, at this part of the service added aloud, ‘_George!_’ Forthwith, a dozen infuriated Jacks sprung to their feet, exclaimed ‘_James!_’ and with a cry of ‘We’ll George you!’ flourished their sticks, whereupon a battle-royal ensued, heads were broken, and provocation was given to make many a subsequent Sunday disgracefully distinguished by the bigots on both sides. The temper of the times was fatal to the then noted school at Edmonton, where Mr. Le Hunt received Roman Catholic young gentlemen from all parts of the world. Foreign families were afraid to send their sons. The house, indeed, was never molested; but, ‘for want of encouragement, Mr. Le Hunt was forced to withdraw.’ Later in the autumn, the opening of a Nonjuring chapel in Spital Fields roused the fury of ‘loyal people.’ The pious and peaceable ‘Weekly Journal’ hoped that ‘all persons loyally affected to King George will timely suppress the diabolical society, as they have done the like seditious assemblies of blind, deluded fools in the Savoy, Scrope’s Court in Holborn, and in Aldersgate Street;’――where the chapels had been set on fire, and the congregations beaten and kicked, as they tried to escape, by the Hanoverian roughs. [Sidenote: _AT DRURY LANE THEATRE._] The Jacobites used similar arguments, and found approval for their application, from grave Tory scholars. A Berkshire vicar, named Blewberry, preached a sermon in a City church against Queen Anne. ‘The auditors,’ says Tory Hearne, ‘pulled him out of the pulpit.’ Blewberry printed his sermon. ‘’Tis wretched stuff,’ says Hearne, ‘in commendation of usurpers, for which he deserved to be mobbed as he was.’