The day was, in London and in many other places, a day of general rejoicing.

The churches were filled in the morning: the afternoon was spent in sport and carousing; and at night bonfires were lighted, rockets discharged, and windows lighted up.

The Jacobites however contrived to discover or to invent abundant matter for scurrility and sarcasm.

They complained bitterly, that the way from the hall to the western door of the Abbey had been lined by Dutch soldiers.
Was it seemly that an English king should enter into the most solemn of engagements with the English nation behind a triple hedge of foreign swords and bayonets?
Little affrays, such as, at every great pageant, almost inevitably take place between those who are eager to see the show and those whose business it is to keep the communications clear, were exaggerated with all the artifices of rhetoric.

One of the alien mercenaries had backed his horse against an honest citizen who pressed forward to catch a glimpse of the royal canopy.