Some regiments advanced as far as Newton Abbot.

A stone, set up in the midst of that little town, still marks the spot where the Prince's Declaration was solemnly read to the people.

The movements of the troops were slow: for the rain fell in torrents; and the roads of England were then in a state which seemed frightful to persons accustomed to the excellent communications of Holland.

William took up his quarters, during two days, at Ford, a seat of the ancient and illustrious family of Courtenay, in the neighbourhood of Newton Abbot.
He was magnificently lodged and feasted there; but it is remarkable that the owner of the house, though a strong Whig, did not choose to be the first to put life and fortune in peril, and cautiously abstained from doing anything which, if the King should prevail, could be treated as a crime.
Exeter, in the meantime, was greatly agitated.

Lamplugh, the bishop, as soon as he heard that the Dutch were at Torbay, set off in terror for London.