By this time news of the confusion and rescue attending the earlier punishment had reached the king’s ears. Ray’s whipping was put off. The Recorder informed the Court of Aldermen, specially summoned to the mayor’s house on Friday afternoon (6 April), that the king purposed coming that day to the Guildhall in person between two and three o’clock, when the mayor and aldermen were commanded to attend, and until then the execution of Ray’s punishment was not to be carried out. At the appointed hour James arrived with divers lords of the council. He is recorded(258) as having made an excellent oration to the mayor and aldermen, "much reprovinge their misgovernment, and the ill carriage of the rude sorte of people, and the affront lately offered to justice in that rescue." He commanded them at their peril to see that no manner of affront occurred in the punishment of Daniel Ray, but that he should after his whipping be quietly conveyed to prison until his majesty’s pleasure should be further known. Three days later (9 April) Ray, Sampson and Taylor (Michell appears to have been the one who succumbed to ill treatment) appeared before a special Court of Aldermen and, acknowledging their offences, asked pardon of God and the king. Thereupon the Recorder signified to them the king’s remission of further punishment, and they were discharged out of prison.(259) (M104) Whilst the Commons were chafing under the restriction which forbade them mentioning even the name of the Palatinate, an elderly individual named Floyd was imprisoned in the Fleet for displaying joy at the news of the battle of Prague. "Goodman Palsgrave and Goodwife Palsgrave," he had been heard to say, "were now turned out of doors." All sorts of punishment was suggested by members of the House, which after all had no jurisdiction in the matter whatever; and after a kind of three-cornered duel between the king, the Lords and Commons, Floyd was made to expiate his crime by riding from Fleet Bridge to the Standard in Cheapside, his face towards the horse’s tail, and having a paper in his hat with the words, "For using ignominious and malicious words against the Prince and Princess Palatine, the king’s only daughter and children." After standing there for two hours he was branded on his forehead with the letter K and conveyed to the Fleet.(260) (M105)