And when the populace, by land and by water, passed Whitehall, they still asked, with insulting shouts, "What has become of the king and his cavaliers?
And whither are they fled ?"[**] * Nalson, vol.ii.p 833.
** Whitlocke.p.52 Dugdale, p.82.Clarendon, vol ii p.
380.
The king, apprehensive of danger from the enraged multitude, had retired to Hampton Court, deserted by all the world, and overwhelmed with grief, shame, and remorse, for the fatal measures into which he had been hurried.

His distressed situation he could no longer ascribe to the rigors of destiny, or the malignity of enemies: his own precipitancy and indiscretion must bear the blame of whatever disasters should henceforth befall him.

The most faithful of his adherents, between sorrow and indignation, were confounded with reflections on what had happened, and what was likely to follow.

Seeing every prospect blasted, faction triumphant, the discontented populace inflamed to a degree of fury, they utterly despaired of success in a cause to whose ruin friends and enemies seemed equally to conspire.
The prudence of the king, in his conduct of this affair, nobody pretended to justify.

The legality of his proceedings met with many and just apologies, though generally offered to unwilling ears.