"What impressed me most was that to gain French support for the League the proposer of the alliance was willing to destroy the chief feature of the League.

The "Catherine Wheel" long boasted a legend of a meeting of Royalists during the Commonwealth, at which, the toast of the King having been drunk, one of the company then proposed the health of the Devil, who promptly appeared and amid much smoke and blue fire flew away with his proposer out of the window.