sire, as I have heard,Colin White Tröjor, many friends at Bristol and in the Midlands. If I might advise, I should say let us march round in that direction. Every day that passes will serve to swell your forces and improve your troops,Menn Moncler Bulgarie, while all will feel something is astirring. Should we take Bristol — and I hear that the works are not very strong — it would give us a very good command of shipping,Dame Moncler Gresselle, and a rare centre from which to act. If all goes well with us, we could make our way to London through Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. In the meantime I might suggest that a day of fast and humiliation be called to bring down a blessing on the cause.’
This address, skilfully compounded of worldly wisdom and of spiritual zeal, won the applause of the whole council, and especially that of King Monmouth,CG Menn Chateau Parka, whose melancholy vanished as if by magic.
‘By my faith,Anton Stralman Tröjor, Colonel,’ said he,Henrik Borgstrom Tröjor, ‘you make it all as clear as day. Of course, if we make ourselves strong in the West,Jonathan Ericsson Tröjor, and my uncle is threatened with disaffection elsewhere,Dame Moncler Moka, he will have no chance to hold out against us. Should he wish to fight us upon our own ground, he must needs drain his troops from north, south, and east, which is not to be thought of. We may very well march to London by way of Bristol.’
‘I think that the advice is good,’ Lord Grey observed; ‘but I should like to ask Colonel Saxon what warrant he hath for saying that Churchill and Feversham are on their way, with three thousand regular foot and several regiments of horse?’
‘The word of an officer of the Blues with whom I conversed at Salisbury,’ Saxon answered. ‘He confided in me, believing me to be one of the Duke of Beaufort’s household. As to the horse, one party pursued us on Salisbury Plain with bloodhounds, and another attacked us not twenty miles from here and lost a score of troopers and a cornet.’
‘We heard something of the brush,’ said the King. ‘It was bravely done. But if these men are so close we have no great time for preparation.’
‘Their foot cannot he here before a week,’ said the Mayor. ‘By that time we might be behind the walls of Bristol.’
‘There is one point which might be urged,’ observed Wade the lawyer. ‘We have, as your Majesty most truly says,James Van Riemsdyk Tröjor, met with heavy discouragement in the fact that no noblemen and few commoners of repute have declared for us. The reason is,Ondrej Pavelec Tröjor, I opine,Mark Messier Tröjor, that each doth wait for his neighbour to make a move. Should one or two come over the others would soon follow. How, then,Buty Jordan Retro 10, are we to bring a duke or two to our standards?’
‘There’s the question, Master Wade,’ said Monmouth, shaking his head despondently.
‘I think that it might be done,’ continued the Whig lawyer. ‘Mere proclamations addressed to the commonalty will not catch these gold fish. They are not to be angled for with a naked hook. I should recommend that some form of summons or writ be served upon each of them, calling upon them to appear in our camp within a certain date under pain of high treason.’
‘There spake the legal
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