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An exact narrative and relation of His Most Sacred Majesties escape from Worcester on the third of September, 1651. Till his arrivall at Paris.
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Meal and such like but now he put upon him a Bridle and Saddle that had out-worn its Tree and Irons and at the time prefixed brought him to the Gate As soon as the King had notice of it out he came and would have had none but Collonel Carelesse and John to have gone along with him but they told him it was very dangerous to venture himselfe with so few they therefore intreated his Majesty that he would give them leave to go with him which at their importunity he granted Having mounted the King Collonel Carelesse and the six brethren guarding him two before and two behinde and one of each side armed with Clubs and Bills Humphrey leading his Horse by the Bridle they began their journey It was five miles from Boscabel to Mosely Master Whitgreaves and the way in some places miry where the Horse blundering caused the King to suspect falling and bid Humphrey have a care to which he answered that that now fortunate Horse had carried many a heavier weight his time six strike of Corn which measure the King understood not but now had a better price on his back the price of three Kingdomes and therefore would not now shame his Master Their travel was soon and safe ended and the King brought the back way to a stile that led to the House Humphries led the Horse into a Ditch and the King alighted off upon the stile but forgetting that most of his Guard were to return home was gone five or six steps onward without taking leave of them but recalling himself returned back and said I am troubled that I forget to take my leave of my friends but if ever I come into England by fair or foul means I will remember you and let me see you when ever it shall so please God so they all kissed his Hand and departed but the Collonel John and Francis Yates who guided the King to the House There Master Thomas Whitgreave received the King dutifully and affectionately and brought him in to my Lord Wilmot who with infinite gladnesse kneeled down and embraced his knees After a little conference his Majesty was had to his lodging and the intriques of it shown him where after the King had rested himselfe that night they entred into consultation about the escape which had been projected by my Lord Wilmot before Francis Yates departed but John staid two or three dayes longer with the King while he went away On Wednesday noon a Troop of the Rebels horse passed through the Town and made no stay which John told not the King of till after noon because as he then said he would not spoil his Majesties Dinner Now the King prepared and fitted himself for his journey and one Mr. Huddlestone and Master VVhitgreave accommodated him with Boots Cloak Money c. and Iohn Pendril was sent to Mistresse Lane about it who sent him back again with a parcel of leaves of Walnuts boyled in Spring Water to colour his Majesties hands and alter the hue and whitenesse of his Skin in those places that were most obvious to the eye and by him gave notice to the King what time she should be ready On Thursday night the eleventh of September Collonel Lane came with his Sister to a field adjoyning and there they put the King before her Iohn having the honour to hold the Kings Stirrup while he mounted and presently they two set forward having taken directions to know the Countrey and my Lady Lane having several recommendations to the allyes friends and acquaintance of her family that lay in their intended road if any untoward occasion should put them to the tryal The several adventures which that Heroical Lady passed and overcame in the management of that grand affair of his Majesties life will become and befit a worthier Paper and a Nobler Pen and therefore let the blessed and thrice happy event of that her fortunate Loyalty restrain a curious enquiry of the means which probably may be some arcana imperii secrecy of State now as well as then of the King not yet fit to be divulged Miracles indeed of this benigne and propitious influence are very rare God hath not dealt so with the Nations round about us Especially where Humane Coadjument and that so signally in the tacitenesse of so many persons concerned hath been instrumental and therefore why may we not as we fearfully behold Comets with delight look upon the serene smiles of Heaven in His Majesties preservation and the Rayes of its Goodnesse diffused into the Breasts of those Loyal Persons his Guardians for whose Honour more especially this Paper officiously obtrudes it self with such weak eyes as we now see with before we can have the benefit of a prospective the full Relation Let it therefore suffice and content us that it pleased the Divine Wisedome and Goodness to protect and defend our most gracious Soveraign in all dangers and places and conditions whatsoever in that his incumbred passage through his own rightful Dominions and without the least umbrage of suspition to conveigh him out of the hands of his blood-thirsty Trayterous Enemies who thought themselves sure of Him That so killing the Heir the Inheritance might be theirs He remained or rather Pilgrimaged from one Sanctuary to another in England near the space of five weeks and like other Princes though not on the same Account was present incognito while such time as a Convenience of Passage could be found for him in Sussex where after he had Embarqued Himself in a Barke out of a Creek He was put back a-again by contrary weather into the same place being disguised in a Saylors cloaths but the wind veering about more favourably about the end of October 1651. Landed at Deep in Normandy from whence an Expresse was sent to her Majesty of England to acquaint her of His safe Arrival which was presently communicated to the French Court who appearingly with great Manifestation of Joy welcomed the Newes But His Majesties most Affectionate Uncle the late Duke of Orleans did with entire joy As also sundry of the most eminent French Nobility Congratulate His Deliverance which they testified by a most Splendid and Honourable Cavalcade at His Reception and Entry into PARIS FINIS
King being overwearied with his travel and sore journey began to be very sleepy The Col. to accommodate him the best he could desired his Majesty to lay his head in his lap and rest the other parts of his body upon the pillow which the King did and after he had taken a good nap William and his wife Joane still peaking up and down and she commonly near the place with a nutthook in her hand gathering of sticks awaked very hungry and wished he had something to eat whereupon the Col. pluckt out of his pocket a good lunchion of bread and cheefe which Joane Pendrill had given him for porvant for that day and had wrapt it up in a clean linnen cloth of which the King fed very heartily and was well pleased with the service and commended highly his good chear and some other smal relief he had which was put up into the Tree with a long hook-stick In the mean while Richard Pendrill the first Esquire was sent to Woller-Hampton some three miles thence being a Market Town to buy Wine and Bisket and some other necessary refreshments for the King and withal to speak with one Mr. George Manwaring a person of known Integrity and Loyalty from Col. Carelesse with some instructions about the Kings removal though not expresly the King but one of that ruined Party in effect it was to know of him whether he knew of any sure privacy for 2 such persons to which he answered he had not himself but would enquire if a friend of his one Master Whitgreave of Moseley formerly and again to be spoken of here could do it So that we may see what a Loyal honest combination and secrecy there was between all of these persons and then Richard returned with his Wine c. to the King who towards the Evening came down by the same ladder from the Tree and was brought into the Garden of Boscable House where he sate in the Bower of it and dranke part of the Wine till toward night Neither was Humphrey Pendrill the Miller un-employed all this while but was sent to get intelligence how things went And the easilier to come by it he was sent to a Captain of the Rump one Broadways formerly a Heelmaker under pretence of carrying him twenty shillings for the pay of a man in the new raised Militia of their County for their Mistres While he was there in came a Colonel of the Rebels and asked for Captain Broadway on purpose to know what further enquiry had been made at White-Ladies for the King relating to Broadway the Story of it to which he replyed he knew nothing of it further then rumour but that there was one of that place in the House that could give him an account of it So Humphrey was called and several questions put to him which he evaded but confest that the King had been there as was supposed but there was no likelyhood for him to stay there for there was three Families in the House and all at difference with one another The Col. told him there was a thousand pound offered to any that would take or discover him and that they doubted not but within a day or two to have him delivered into their hands These tydings Humphrey brought with him and omitted not to tell his Majesty of the price his Rebells had set on him at the telling of which the King looked something dismayed as having trusted his Life into the hands of such poor Men whom such a summe as that though both detestable and of inconsiderable value to the Purchase might pervert from their Allegiance and Fidelity which made Humphrey to be exceedingly troubled for his rashness while Collonel Carelesse assured the King if it were 100000 l. it were to no more purpose and that he would engage his Soul for their truth which Humphrey also with many urgent asseverations did second It was late and the King was very hungry and had a minde to a Loyn of Mutton and being come into the House asked William if he could not get him such a Joynt to which he replyed that he had it not of his own but he would make bold at that time and for that occasion with one of his Masters Sheep in the Cote which instantly he did and brought it into the ground Cellar where the Collonel not having the patience to stay while he fetcht a Knife stabb'd it with his Dagger and when William came down they hung it upon a door and fleyd it and brought up a hind Quarter to the King who presently fell a chopping of the Line to pieces or as they called it then into Scotch Collops which the Collonel clapt into the Pan while the King held it and fryed it This passage yeilded the King a pleasant jocular discourse after his Arrival in France when it amounted to a Question a very difficult case who was Cook and who was Scullion and for solution of the doubt when it could not be decided by the Lords then present was referred to the judgement of his Majesties Master Cook who affirmed that the king was hîc nunc both of them When this nimble Collation was ended it was time for the King to betake himself to his rest and his Chamberlain William brought him to his appartiment It was a place made between two Walls on purpose for secrecy contrived at the building of the House thither they let the King down where be slept very incommodiously with little or no rest for that the place was not long enough for him and therefore the next night they laid him a sorry Bed upon the Stair-case as they used to do for strange Woodcutters that the meannesse of his lodging might secure him from suspicion My Lord Wilmot as is said before was all this while safe at Master Whitgreaves onely his care of the King made him full of trouble His hiding place was so sure a one that at his first coming to it he wished so he gave 20000 l. that the King were either as secure or there with him he therefore dispatched away John Pendrill who had attended him all along to the White Ladies to enquire for the King and to give him notice of the conveniency that was at Master Whitegreaves but when he came thither which was on Friday the King was then gone to Madeley to Master Wolfes The next day he was sent againe and by Richards Wife directed to Boscabel where he delivered the King the Message which the King assented unto and resolved to remove thither Munday night September 8. at eleven at night was the time appointed for the Kings progresse to Moseley but a Horse was hard to be found John was ordered to borrow one of one Stanton of Hatton but he had lent his out before when the Collonel remembred that Humphrey the Miller had one and he thereupon was called and desired to lend him for the Kings Service it was a kinde of War-horse that had carryed many a load of provision