The two last carts were stopped in Holborn, and all that they contained was publicly burned in the middle of the street.
So great was the alarm among the Catholics that all their places of worship were closed, except those which belonged to the royal family and to foreign Ambassadors.

[516] On the whole, however, things as yet looked not unfavourably for James.
The invaders had been more than a week on English ground.

Yet no man of note had joined them.

No rebellion had broken out in the north or the east.

No servant of the crown appeared to have betrayed his trust.