ury with the same military
pomp which he had displayed at Exeter, and was lodged there in the
palace which the King had occupied a few days before. [565]

His train was now swelled by the Earls of Clarendon and Oxford, and by
other men of high rank, who had, till within a few days, been considered
as jealous Royalists. Van Citters also made his appearance at the Dutch
head quarters. He had been during some weeks almost a prisoner in his
house, near Whitehall, under the constant observation of relays of
spies. Yet, in spite of those spies, or perhaps by their help, he had
succeeded in obtaining full and accurate intelligence of all that passed
in the palace; and now, full fraught wrath valuable information about
men and things, he came to assist the deliberations of William. [566]

Thus far the Prince's enterprise had prospered beyond the anticipations
of the most sanguine. And now, according to the general law which
governs human affairs, prosperity began to produce disunion. The
Englishmen assembled at Salisbury were divided into two parties. One
party consisted of Whigs who had always regarded the doctrines of
passive obedience and of indefeasible hereditary right as slavish
superstitions. Many of them had passed years in exile. All had been
long shut out from participation to the favours of the crown. They now
exulted in the near prospect of greatness and of vengeance. Burning
with resentment, flushed with victory and hope, they would hear of
no compromise. Nothing less than the deposition of their enemy would
content them: nor can it be disputed that herein they were perfectly
consistent. They had exerted themselves, nine years earlier, to exclude
him from the throne, because they thought it likely that he would be
a bad King. It could therefore scarcely be expected that they would
willingly leave him on the throne, now that he had turned out a far
worse King than any reasonable man could have anticipated.

On the other hand, not a few of William's followers were zealous Tories,
who had, till very recently, held the doctrine of nonresistance in the
most absolute form, but whose faith in that doctrine had, for a moment,
given way to the strong passions excited by the ingratitude of the King
and by the peril of the Church. No situation could be more painful
or perplexing than that of the old Cavalier who found himself in arms
against the throne. The scruples which had not prevented him from
repairing to the Dutch ca