On the following day the magistrates of the City went in state to pay their duty to their deliverer.

Their gratitude was eloquently expressed by their Recorder, Sir George Treby.

Some princes of the House of Nassau, he said, had been the chief officers of a great republic.

Others had worn the imperial crown.

But the peculiar title of that illustrious line to the public veneration was this, that God had set it apart and consecrated it to the high office of defending truth and freedom against tyrants from generation to generation.