Indeed it would not be for his own honour to treat his vanquished kinsman so ungraciously.

Nor was it quite clear that generosity might not be the best policy.

Who could say what effect such severity as Clarendon recommended might produce on the public mind of England?
Was it impossible that the loyal enthusiasm, which the King's misconduct had extinguished, might revive as soon as it was known that he was within the walls of a foreign fortress?
On these grounds William determined not to subject his father in law to personal restraint; and there can be little doubt that the determination was wise.

[601] James, while his fate was under discussion, remained at Whitehall, fascinated, as it seemed, by the greatness and nearness of the danger, and unequal to the exertion of either struggling or flying.

In the evening news came that the Dutch had occupied Chelsea and Kensington.
The King, however, prepared to go to rest as usual.