Every day that passes will serve to swell your forces and improve your troops, while all will feel something is astirring.
Should we take Bristol--and I hear that the works are not very strong--it would give us a very good command of shipping, and a rare centre from which to act.

If all goes well with us, we could make our way to London through Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.

In the meantime I might suggest that a day of fast and humiliation be called to bring down a blessing on the cause.' This address, skilfully compounded of worldly wisdom and of spiritual zeal, won the applause of the whole council, and especially that of King Monmouth, whose melancholy vanished as if by magic.
'By my faith, Colonel,' said he, 'you make it all as clear as day.
Of course, if we make ourselves strong in the West, and my uncle is threatened with disaffection elsewhere, he will have no chance to hold out against us.

Should he wish to fight us upon our own ground, he must needs drain his troops from north, south, and east, which is not to be thought of.

We may very well march to London by way of Bristol.' 'I think that the advice is good,' Lord Grey observed; 'but I should like to ask Colonel Saxon what warrant he hath for saying that Churchill and Feversham are on their way, with three thousand regular foot and several regiments of horse ?' 'The word of an officer of the Blues with whom I conversed at Salisbury,' Saxon answered.