Further regime change arrived with the Dutch invasion in 1688. The new king's preference for religious toleration (though not in respect of Roman Catholics) began to catch on with many members of the political class: nonconformist preachers no longer operated subject to official suspicion. From 1690 Joseph Bennet received an annual cash grant from a Common Fund set up by London (religious) "dissenters" to "assist impecunious ministers". He moved again in 1696, this time to Hastings, still in the county of Sussex, but now on its south coast. Here he continued to look after a presbyterian congregation. However, towards the end of his life, memory loss and blindness forced him to retire.