on appeal, when the case was argued at great length in the King’s Bench. The growing horror of Catholicism was not diminished by his appointment as deputy warden of the Cinque Ports and lieutenant of Dover Castle, and in June 1687 as lieutenant of the Tower and master of ordnance. In November 1688 he was dismissed from his post at the Tower, and on 11 December ⁶  with Sir Ralph Sheldon he helped King James to escape from Lambeth and make for Sheerness with the object of getting away to France. At Faversham the party was stopped and taken on shore by the trained bands, the Whig gentlemen of the place not realizing that they were doing the Prince of Orange a disservice in thus detaining James.⁷  The Earl of Winchilsea rode over from Canterbury to interpose on the king’s behalf and remove him to a more suitable lodging. Hales was imprisoned at Maidstone, and James returned to Rochester and then to Whitehall. On 18 December Evelyn says, ‘I saw the king take barge to Gravesend at twelve o’clock—a sad sight.’ This was his final abandonment of his kingdom.⁸
   On 1 February 1688-9 an address of Kentish gentlemen ’was presented to the king with near 20,000 signatures,’⁹ and the same month the deputy lieutenants of the county received orders to disarm all popish families.’¹⁰  Strongly Whig as the county was in its sympathies, its ports were for some years in constant use by Jacobite intriguers on their way between St. Germains and England. A narrow watch was kept, and the mayors of Sandwich, Romney, Hythe, Margate, the deputy governor of Deal Castle and others had orders to stop and detain all persons travelling without a satisfactory pass,¹¹  or ‘suspected of designing to pass into France.’
   The press was active in the county in procuring men for both sea and land service, and on 19 Febuary 1690-1 Marlborough received instructions to examine into an abuse of this power lately committed at Canterbury by Captain Pinson and Thomas Humpston, officers in Colonel Fitzpatrick’s regiment.¹²  Troops of horse and dragoons patrolled the roads. In 1693 the Duke of Ormond’s troop of guards and the Earl of Oxford’s regiment were ordered into the county, and dragoons were quartered ‘about Romney, Hythe and Lydd, and on that coast.’¹³  In the same year John Lunt, a Jacobite informer, attested ‘the readiness and condition of the king’s (James’s) friends, the papists and Jacobites,’ in Kent ¹⁴  and another, Mr. Taffe, examined as to what counties were concerned in the Lancashire conspiracy of November, 1694 ¹⁵  said that ‘several of the men taken up in Kent, that were to murder the king, were of it.’
   ⁶  On 8 Dec. Dover Castle was seized and held by some townsmen, who declared Irish forces were on the way there, and that they believed a considerable number of French were to be landed. Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xi, App. v, p. 228; vii, App. p. 421. On the 15th, three gentlemen travelling through Faversham were seized upon at their inn by the magistracy and military, for Romish priests. Ibid.
   ⁷  In 1723, Lord Harley mentions having seen the house in Court Street, ‘on the right hand about the middle of the street,’ where the Prince of Orange’s declaration was read under the window out of which he was looking, by ‘one Napleton, an inferior sort of lawyer.’ Ibid. Rep. xi, Harley Papers, vol. iv, p. 79.
   ⁸  The invitation to the Prince of Orange had been conveyed by Henry Sidney, brother of Algernon, later raised to the peerage as Baron Milton of the County of Kent, and Viscount Sidney of Sheppey, made Earl of Romney 14 May 1694, who was lord lieutenant of the county 1689-92 and 1694-1704; one of the handsomest men of his day, a great intriguer, and colonel of the King’s (William’s) Regiment of Footguards.
    ⁹  Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xii, App vii, p, 235.        ¹⁰ ibid. 315.
   ¹¹ Cal. S.P.Dom. 1689-90, p. 334; 1691-2, p.256 ; 169   p.437; 1694-5, pp.8, 25,  166, 419.
   ¹²  Ibid. 1690-1, p. 269.                                             ¹³ Ibid. 1693, p. 175.
   ¹⁴  Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, p. 292.      ¹⁵ Ibid. 330.