s those which the Scotch emigrants had devised.
All that was required of him was to promise that he would not assume the
regal title till his pretensions has been submitted to the judgment of a
free Parliament.

It was determined that two Englishmen, Ayloffe and Rumbold, should
accompany Argyle to Scotland, and that Fletcher should go with Monmouth
to England. Fletcher, from the beginning, had augured ill of the
enterprise: but his chivalrous spirit would not suffer him to decline
a risk which his friends seemed eager to encounter. When Grey repeated
with approbation what Wildman had said about Richmond and Richard, the
well read and thoughtful Scot justly remarked that there was a great
difference between the fifteenth century and the seventeenth. Richmond
was assured of the support of barons, each of whom could bring an army
of feudal retainers into the field; and Richard had not one regiment of
regular soldiers. [340]

The exiles were able to raise, partly from their own resources and
partly from the contributions of well wishers in Holland, a sum
sufficient for the two expeditions. Very little was obtained from
London. Six thousand pounds had been expected thence. But instead of the
money came excuses from Wildman, which ought to have opened the eyes
of all who were not wilfully blind. The Duke made up the deficiency by
pawning his own jewels and those of Lady Wentworth. Arms, ammunition,
and provisions were bought, and several ships which lay at Amsterdam
were freighted. [341]

It is remarkable that the most illustrious and the most grossly injured
man among the British exiles stood far aloof from these rash counsels.
John Locke hated tyranny and persecution as a philosopher; but his
intellect and his temper preserved him from the violence of a partisan.
He had lived on confidential terms with Shaftesbury, and had thus
incurred the displeasure of the court. Locke's prudence had, however,
been such that it would have been to little purpose to bring him even
before the corrupt and partial tribunals of that age. In one point,
however, he was vulnerable. He was a student of Christ Church in the
University of Oxford. It was determined to drive from that celebrated
college the greatest man of whom it could ever boast. But this was not
easy. Locke had, at Oxford, abstained from expressing any opinion on the
politics of the day. Spies had been set about him. Doctors of Divinity
and Masters of Arts had not been ashamed t