He set off for London, breathing vengeance against Churchill, and learned, on arriving, a new crime of the arch deceiver.
The Princess Anne had been some hours missing.
Anne, who had no will but that of the Churchills, had been induced by them to notify under her own hand to William, a week before, her approbation of his enterprise.

She assured him that she was entirely in the hands of her friends, and that she would remain in the palace, or take refuge in the City, as they might determine.

[544] On Sunday the twenty-fifth of November, she, and those who thought for her, were under the necessity of coming to a sudden resolution.

That afternoon a courier from Salisbury brought tidings that Churchill had disappeared, that he had been accompanied by Grafton, that Kirke had proved false, and that the royal forces were in full retreat.

There was, as usually happened when great news, good or bad, arrived in town, an immense crowd that evening in the galleries of Whitehall.