The north was his, Edinburgh, the Jacobites scattered through the Lowlands.

The moderate Whig and Presbyterian might begin to think of compounding, of finding virtues in necessity.

The irreconcilables felt great alarm and saw coming upon them a helplessness.
But the Stewarts, with French approval behind, aimed at the recovery of England no less than Scotland.

Windsor might well overdazzle Holyrood.

This interest had received many and strong protestations of support from a wide swathe of English nobility and gentry.