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A67220
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Claustrum regale reseratum, or, The Kinges concealment at Trent published by A.W.
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Wyndham, Anne.
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1667
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Wing W3772; ESTC R34100
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all others out of the way at the instant of his Majesties arrival All which after a while answered their desires even beyond their expectation Between nine and ten the next morning the Colonel and his Lady walking towards the fields adjoining to the house espied the King riding before Mrs Lane and Mr Lassels in their company Assoon as his Majesty came near the Colonel He called to him Frank Frank 〈◊〉 how dost thou do By which gracious pleasance the Colonel perceived that though his Majesties habit and countenance were much changed yet his Heroick spirit was the same and his mind immutable The Colonel to avoid the jealous eyes of some neighbours instantly conveyed the King and Mrs Lane into the Lady Wyndham's Chamber where the passions of Joy and Sorrow did a while combat in them who beheld his Sacred Person For what loyal Eye could look upon so Glorious a Prince thus eclypsed and not pay unto him the homage of tears But the consideration of his Majesties safety the gracious words of his own mouth confuting the sad reports of his untimely death together with the hope of his future preservation soon dried them up In al short time the Colonel brought the Lord Wilmot to the King and then the Ladies withdrew into the Parlour having first agreed to call Mrs Lane Cousin and to entertain her with the same familiarity as if she had been their near Relation That day she stayed at Trent and the next morning early Mr Lassels and she departed His Majesty after he had refreshed himself commanded the Colonel in the presence of the Lord Wilmot to propose What way he thought most probable for his Escape into France for thither he desired with all speed to be transported The Colonel the King giving him this opportunity entertained and encouraged his Majesty with this remarkable passage of Sir Thomas Wyndham his Father Who not long before his death in the Year 1636 called unto him his five Sons having not seen them together in some years before and discoursed unto us said he of the long Peace and Prosperity this Kingdom had enjoyed under its Three last Glorious Monarchs Of the the many Miseries and Calamities which lay sore upon our Ancestors by the several Invasions and Conquests of Forein Nations and likewise by Intestine Insurrections and Rebellions And notwithstanding the strange mutations and Changes in England He shewed how it pleased God in love to our Nation to preserve an undoubted Succession of Kings to sit in the Regal Throne He mentioned the healing Conjunction of the two Houses of York and Lancaster and the blessed Vnion of the two Crowns of England and Scotland stopping up those fountains of Blood which by National feuds and quarrels kept open had like to have drowned the whole Island He said he feared the beautiful garment of Peace would shortly be torn in pieces through the Neglect of Magistrates the general Corruption of manners and the prevalence of a Puritanical faction which if not prevented would undermine the very pillars of Government My sons We have hitherto seen serene and quiet Times but now prepare your selves for cloudy and troublesom I command you to honour and obey our Gracious Soveraign and in all times to adhere to the Crown and though the Crown should hang upon a Bush I charge you forsake it not These words being spoken with much earnestness both in gesture and manner extraordinary he arose from his chair and left us in a deep consultation what the meaning should be of The Crown hanging upon a Bush These words Sir said the Colonel made so firm an impression in all our breasts that the many afflictions of these sad Times cannot raze out their undelible characters Certainly these are the days which my Father pointed out in that Expression And I doubt not God hath brought me through so many dangers that I might shew my self both a dutiful Son and a loyal Subject in faithfully endeavouring to serve your Sacred Majesty in this your greatest Distress After this Rehearsal the Colonel in obedience to his Majesties command told the King That Sir John Strangways who had given many testimonies of his loyalty having two Sons both of them Colonels for his Royal Father lived but four miles from Trent That he was a person of great fortune and interest in Dorsetshire and therefore he supposed that either Sir John or his Sons might be serviceable to his Majesties occasions The King in prosecution of this proposal commanded the Colonel to wait on them and accordingly the next morning he went over to Melbury the place where Sir John dwelt No sooner was he come thither but he met with Colonel Giles Strangways and after usual salutations they walked into the Park adjoyning to the house where Colonel Wyndham imparted the reason and end of his present Visit Colonel Strangways his answer was That he was infinitely grieved because he was not able to serve his Majesty in procuring a Vessel according to expectation That he knew not any one Master of a Ship or so much as one Mariner that he could trust All that were formerly of his acquaintance in Weymouth being for their loyalty banished and gone beyond the sea and in Pool and Lime he was a meer stranger having not one Confident in either A hundred pounds in Gold he delivered to Colonel Wyndham to present to the King which at his return by command was deposited in the hands of the Lord Wilmot for his Majesties use About this time the Forces under Cromwell were retreated from Worcester into the several Quarters of the Country some of which coming to Trent proclaimed the Overthrow of the Kings Army and the Death of the King giving out that he was certainly killed And one of them affirmed that he saw him dead and that he was buried among the rest of the slain no injury being offered to his body because he was a Valiant Soldier and a Gallant man This welcome News so tickled the Sectaries that they could not hold from expressing their joy by making Bonfires firing of Guns Drinking and other jollities And for a close of all to the Church they must and there ring the Kings knell These rude Extravagancies moved not his Majesty at all but onely as if he were more troubled for their madness than his own misfortune to this most Christian and compassionate Expression Alas poor people Now though the King valued not the menaces of his proud Enemies being confident they could do him no hurt yet he neglected not to try the faithfulness of his Friends to convey him out of their reach Thus the former design proving unsuccessful and all hope of Transfretation that way being laid aside the Colonel acquainted his Majesty that one Captain William Ellesden of Lime formerly well known unto him with his Brother John Ellesden by means of Colonel Bullen Reymes of Wadden in Dorsetshine had conveyed over into France Sir John Berkley now Lord Berkley in a time of