ABSTRACT
With Michaelmas law term over and Christmas approaching, it grew harder to keep up the noise about Wood’s coins. 1 Belligerent pamphlets still came out; but as Bishop Nicolson lamented, 2 they could not be prosecuted—and therefore made little stir. All possible declarations had been signed. The Lord Lieutenant turned his public attention elsewhere and ostentatiously busied himself—to general applause—in reforming the management of the treasury and the army.
