Their lives were forfeit: for they had been guilty, not merely of mutiny, which was then not a legal crime, but of levying war against the King.

William, however, with politic clemency, abstained from shedding the blood even of the most culpable.

A few of the ringleaders were brought to trial at the next Bury assizes, and were convicted of high treason; but their lives were spared.

The rest were merely ordered to return to their duty.
The regiment, lately so refractory, went submissively to the Continent, and there, through many hard campaigns, distinguished itself by fidelity, by discipline, and by valour.

[47] This event facilitated an important change in our polity, a change which, it is true, could not have been long delayed, but which would not have been easily accomplished except at a moment of extreme danger.