Why retreat from Salisbury?
Why not try the event of a battle?
Could people be blamed for submitting to the invader when they saw their sovereign run away at the head of his army?
James felt these insults keenly, and remembered them long.

Indeed even Whigs thought the language of Clarendon indecent and ungenerous.

Halifax spoke in a very different tone.

During several years of peril he had defended with admirable ability the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of his country against the prerogative.

But his serene intellect, singularly unsusceptible of enthusiasm, and singularly averse to extremes, began to lean towards the cause of royalty at the very moment at which those noisy Royalists who had lately execrated the Trimmers as little bettor than rebels were everywhere rising in rebellion.