They walked to a farmhouse, procured horses, and took different roads to London.

Fuller hastened to the palace at Kensington, and delivered the documents with which he was charged into the King's hand.

The first letter which William unrolled seemed to contain only florid compliments: but a pan of charcoal was lighted: a liquor well known to the diplomatists of that age was applied to the paper: an unsavoury steam filled the closet; and lines full of grave meaning began to appear.
The first thing to be done was to secure Crone.

He had unfortunately had time to deliver his letters before he was caught: but a snare was laid for him into which he easily fell.

In truth the sincere Jacobites were generally wretched plotters.