[521] The news of these events reached London on the fifteenth.

James had been on the morning of that day in high good humour.

Bishop Lamplugh had just presented himself at court on his arrival from Exeter, and had been most graciously received.

"My Lord," said the King, "you are a genuine old Cavalier." The archbishopric of York, which had now been vacant more than two years and a half, was immediately bestowed on Lamplugh as the reward of loyalty.

That afternoon, just as the King was sitting down to dinner, arrived an express with the tidings of Cornbury's defection.
James turned away from his untasted meal, swallowed a crust of bread and a glass of wine, and retired to his closet.