[605] While the King's barge was slowly working its way on rough billows down the river, brigade after brigade of the Prince's troops came pouring into London from the west.

It had been wisely determined that the duty of the capital should be chiefly done by the British soldiers in the service of the States General.

The three English regiments were quartered in and round the Tower, the three Scotch regiments in Southwark.

[606] In defiance of the weather a great multitude assembled between Albemarle House and Saint James's Palace to greet the Prince.

Every hat, every cane, was adorned with an orange riband.