On this subject Englishmen were of one mind.

Tories, Nonjurors, even Roman Catholics, were as loud as Whigs in reviling the ill fated race.

It is, therefore, not difficult to guess what effect would have been produced by the appearance on our soil of enemies whom, on their own soil, we had vanquished and trampled down.
James, however, in spite of the recent and severe teaching of experience, believed whatever his correspondents in England told him; and they told him that the whole nation was impatiently expecting him, that both the West and the North were ready to rise, that he would proceed from the place of landing to Whitehall with as little opposition as when, in old times, he returned from a progress.

Ferguson distinguished himself by the confidence with which he predicted a complete and bloodless victory.

He and his printer, he was absurd enough to write, would be the two first men in the realm to take horse for His Majesty.