Nothing remained but flight: and yet, he said, he knew that there was nothing which his enemies so much desired as that he would fly.

[598] While he was in this state of trepidation, his fate was the subject of a grave deliberation at Windsor.

The court of William was now crowded to overflowing with eminent men of all parties.

Most of the chiefs of the Northern insurrection had joined him.

Several of the Lords, who had, during the anarchy of the preceding week, taken upon themselves to act as a provisional government, had, as soon as the King returned, quitted London for the Dutch head quarters.