The Oxford circuit had been allotted to them; and they had expected to be greeted in every shire by a cavalcade of the loyal gentry.

But as they approached Wallingford, where they were to open their commission for Berkshire, the Sheriff alone came forth to meet them.

As they approached Oxford, the eminently loyal capital of an eminently loyal province, they were again welcomed by the Sheriff alone.
[441] The army was scarcely less disaffected than the clergy or the gentry.
The garrison of the Tower had drunk the health of the imprisoned Bishops.

The footguards stationed at Lambeth had, with every mark of reverence, welcomed the Primate back to his palace.

Nowhere had the news of the acquittal been received with more clamorous delight than at Hounslow Heath.