[630] Several eminent Scotsmen were in London when the Prince arrived there; and many others now hastened thither to pay their court to him.

On the seventh of January he requested them to attend him at Whitehall.

The assemblage was large and respectable.

The Duke of Hamilton and his eldest son, the Earl of Arran, the chiefs of a house of almost regal dignity, appeared at the head of the procession.

They were accompanied by thirty Lords and about eighty gentlemen of note.