The poor child crossed the Thames at Kingston, and was brought into Whitehall so privately that many believed him to be still at Portsmouth.

[572] To send him and the Queen out of the country without delay was now the first object of James.

But who could be trusted to manage the escape?
Dartmouth was the most loyal of Protestant Tories; and Dartmouth had refused.

Dover was a creature of the Jesuits; and even Dover had hesitated.

It was not very easy to find, an Englishman of rank and honour who would undertake to place the heir apparent of the English crown in the hands of the King of France.