Show FLIGHT OF CHARLES Unfortunate Kings Unavailing Withdrawal Withdraw l to Isle of Wight The flight of Charles I from fro Hampton Court fo 10 0 Isle of Wight and his huis ar arrest arrest arrest rest antt zu to Windsor Castle are described in the May Century in inthe inthe the of Mr Cromwell papers We now no know toot that Charles fled fIed from front Court because he had been told by the Scottish envoys S as well as aa from other quarters that his is life was in denser denger d mger luit without any more fixed b bd d than when he had fled fied from front Oxford in April of the previous year He seems to have arranged to take ship front from Southampton Water but the vessel v newer never came come and he ie took refuge In Castle in li the Isle of Wight November 14 1647 Charles might possibly even at the eleventh hour have made his escape but he still nurs the Illusion that the aru could not cruch cruh the parliament without him He had iad moreover given I his h parole When Wien reminded that he be had given it it not to the army arm but to totne I the parliament his somber pride for once withstood a sophism At break body of ot officers broke into his chamber put him into a conducted him Co tie the coast and then transported him across the Solent to Hurst Castle a desolate and narrow blockhouse stand standIng Leg Ing at the edge aM no a on the Hampshire il Shore In these dreary quarters he be remained for Vor a fortnight The T e last Iut scene was vas now rapidly ap approaching preaching of the desperate drama in which ovary every one ne of the actors king parliament army army Cromwell was en engaged engaged engaged I in iIi a death tr with an im mi implacable plu Necessity On Deco December 15 16 the council of officers cers cem determined i that hat Charles should be brought to Windsor Windom and Fairfax sent ent orders accordingly In lite 1 depth of f the W Winter winter inter night the king in the desolate desol te keep on the line heard h d the clanking cl of the drawbridge and at daybreak he ho learned that the redoubt redoubtable redoubtable redoubtable able Major Harrison had arrived Charles well knew how short a space vides divides the prison of a prince rinee from his grave greve He had often revolved in his mind sad stories tries of the death of kings of Henry VI of Edward II U murdered at Berkley of Richard II at Pontefract of his grandmother at and he thought that the presence of Harrison must mean that I I II his own hour hom had now come for a like t mysterious doom Harrison was no noman I neil man for thc midnight deeds though he was wag fervid in this ibis belief and so 00 he I told the king that justice was no re of persons and great and small SIm l alike must be submitted to the law Charles ChaTlos was wag relieved to find that he h was only going to exchange the worst of ids his castles cales for the b st bt tet and after 1 a ride of four our days December Dece iber 1923 through the flu New Forest Winchester ter Farnham Far Mm Bagshot he found fo nd himself owe onee more noblest of the palaces of the English Here for some sane three bree ree weeks he passed infatuated hours In the cheerful confidence e that the deadlock adlock d was as immovable as ever ev r that his enemies would find the knot inextricable that he was wa is still mUl their master and ami that the blessed day dey would soon arrive when he should fit round their necks the t e avenging yen ing helter halter |