Show THEN AND THERE HISTORY TOLD AS IT BE WRITTEN TODAY by arvin S fugitive king describes own flight b bor chaa eye altae account ot otobe een in history I 1 the tele of royal told by 11 bora ID 1630 died la IMS tran 4 great britain and ireland it I 1 not wu avea after the cpr 4 bearly three ce lift one should meddle th of amaat monarch so the text 1 l reproduced her practically a h ori chial form there I 1 no valid reason iw doubting iti authenticity it 1 first wa la beta extracted from fuller narrative lifted from h t literary toren of that marve oui amateur atry aad in Mt Alto coll ions atter th death 0 both th ks and t after th 0 th foru of hi father by tk anay of 0 cromwel lb a thea of fifteen fled out a england I 1 a a men know and died oa th baboid a caffola caf fold beefed reefed i tabt of th palace whir he had th toil reached part abera b fouad aa asylum it wa froia france leur cynara later that h back to bead a revolt ca nt cromwell in an tort to rala n clr throne to the claimant that erful d idoft for the coad time ID hi young hi b became bunted refue it with what happened to kioa ui of lit cause that bl own atory d ali tie w stuart scot aad to scotland he in 1653 to raise U jandard tan dard bat before he took the field h did L lass al of hr nature he wore to which mcfelly be baj DO intention of keep nf he kirnard a declaration to hi lather blood twit to bt mother and to hi abhorrence of tb church la which he bad been rea edhe hi to presbyterianism a alib which privately be so the scot crowned J bam and while they were dome this dour old cromwell waa omin up to ack an neon frooma mixture of discontented and scotch covenanter t la the following charle hi bl true color that I 1 if we concede that any of hi colon ever were true one he chook off the h fluence which bad hua a cleab a bt eitrem ty and at the bead of follower marched auth at carlisle b bad kin w u by recruit under the carl of derby and with bore or lew dis heartened men hi hi command estered the old city of worcester her occurred the engagement which ruined hi hope he douht bravely cowardice wa one of the few vice be escaped in he led tallant but cavalry chaffe arabit the victorious roundhead the battle or hi tide became retreat and the retreat became roat he ra way accompanied by few noblemen and kent emen ran away with ance oa ati bead md no place where he might reft the head ft A the battle was so ab A sol lost as to be be yond hope of I 1 began to think f the best way of saving myself and the first thought that came into my heart ans that if I 1 could possible I 1 would get to london as soon if not sooner than the news of our defeat could get thither and it being near dark I 1 talked with some especially with lord rochester afterwards I 1 ord alf not about their opinions which would be the best way for me to escape it being impossible as I 1 thou glit to got back into scotland I 1 found them mightily distracted and their opan ions different of the possibility of petting to scotland but not on agreeing with mine for going to london saving lord wilmot and the Is I 1 did not impart my design of going to london to any but but we had such a number of beaten men with us that I 1 as soon as ever it was dark to get from them and though I 1 could not get them to stand by me enemy I 1 could not get rid of them now I 1 had a mind to it so we rode through a town short of woh er bampton betwixt that and worcester and went through al though a troop of my enemies were ly lag there that night we rode very through the town they nobody to watch nor they suspecting us no more than we did them which I 1 learned afterward from a country fellow e went that night about twenty biles to a place called white ladys bard by tong castle by the advice of mr aldard where we stopped and got tome little refreshment of triad and cheese and just as we tame thither there came in a country fellow that told vs were three thousand of our horse just hard by tong castle upon the heath all in disorder upon which there were some of the people of ity that were with me who were very earnest that I 1 should go to them and endeavor to go into scotland which I 1 thought was absolutely impossible knowing very well that the country would rise op upon us and that men who hid deserted me while they were in good order would never stand to me when they had been beaten ahls made me take the resolution t putting myself into a disguise and endeavoring to acet afoot to london in a country fellow a hahle wearing a pair of ordinary gray cloth breeches leathern doublet and a green jerkin which 1 took in the house of white ladys I 1 also cut my hair very hort and flung my clothes into an tant nobody might see that anybody had been stripping them calves As soon as 1 was disguised I 1 took with me a country fellow eliose name was richard Pen derell whom mr giffard had undertaken to answer for to be an honest man up the alley by the milt 1 I was no sooner gone being the beit morning after the battle and then broad day out of the house with this country fellow that being in a great wood I 1 sat myself at alie edye of the wood near the highway that was there the better to see who came after us and whether they made any bearch after the ronn ways and I 1 im mediately caw a troop of horse corn ing by which I 1 conceived to be the game troop that beat our three thou band horse hot it did not look like a troop of the ardys hut of the mill ala for the fellow before it did not look at all like a soldier in this wood I 1 stayed all day with out meat or drink and by great good fortune it rained all the time which hindered them as 1 believe from corn ing into the wood to search for men that might be fled thither and one thing la remarkable enough that those with whom I 1 have since aboken did say that it rained little or none with them all the day but only in the wood where I 1 was athla contributing to my safety the truth la my mind changed as lay in the wood and I 1 resolved of AW another wy of mil ing my escape which u as 0 o get er the severn into and so to pet either to cwm ea or s me oilier 0 tiie se that I 1 knew and omro erce walli 1 ranee 1 lie end I 1 intent cross ncr to anne eliat way as being a bov hint I 1 thought none would suspect dinv inv tal ing so that night as soon as it was dark richard and 1 took out journey on foot towards the severn but as we were going in the night we came up bv a mill where 1 beard people and the country feblow me not to an awer if anybody should ask me any questions because 1 had not the ac cent of the country just as we came to the mill we could see the miller at the mill door he being in white clothes and it abeln a very dark night he called out ou t lio goes there upon which richard Pen derell answered aih bora going home or some ai h like words thereupon the miller cried out if you be neighbors stand or I 1 will knock you donn upon which there was kompany in the house the fellow bad me follow him close and he ran to gate eliat went up a dirty lane up a hill and as he was opening the gate the miller cried out rogues rogues 1 hereupon some men came out of the mill after us which I 1 believed were soldiers so we fell a running both of us up the lane as long as we could run it being very deep and very dirty till at last I 1 bade him leap over a hedge and lie etall to hear if anybody foil wed us which we did and continued 1 ins down upon the ground about half an hour when hearing nobody ne continued our way on to the village upon the severn where the alow told me there was an honest one air that lived in that town where I 1 might be with great safety for that he had hiding holes for priests but I 1 would not go in till I 1 knew a little of his whether he would receive so dangerous a guest as me and therefore in a field under a hedge by a great tree corn manding him not to say it was I 1 but only to ask mr woolfe whether he would receive an english gentleman a person of quality to hide him the next day till we could travel again by night for I 1 durst not go but by night over tha river sir woolfe when the country fel low told him it was one that had es from the battle of worcester sald tant for his part U was so dun berous a thing to harbor anybody tant was known that he would not venture his neck for any man unless it wee we e ali king himself upon which rich ard Pen derell very indiscreetly and without my leave told him that it was I 1 upon which mr woolfe re piled that lie should be very ready to venture all he had in the world to aid me richard Pen derell came and told me what he and done at which I 1 was a little troubled but then there was no remedy the day being just coming in and I 1 must either venture that or bom greater dinger so I 1 came into the house by a back way where I 1 found mr woolfe an old gentleman who told roe that he was very borry to see me there be cause there were two companies of the militia on foot at that time in arms in the town and keeping a guard at the ferry to examine everybody that came that way in expectation of catching some that might be making escape and that he durst not put me into any of the biding holes of hit house because they had been discovered and consequently if any search should be made the searchers would certainly repair to these holes and that therefore 1 had no other way of security but to go into his barn nod there tie behind bis corn and hay so after he had given us some cold meat that was ready we without making any bustle in the honse went and lay in the barn all the next daiy diy and towards even ing his son who bad been prisoner at shrewsbury an bon est man was released and came horn to his father s house and as soon of ever it bobsin 11 be a little sir bolfe and his s n croul t of meat into the burn and then we dl coursed with them ellit safely gel over the heern into alea alch her advised me by no means to adren tur upon upon this I 1 took the resolution of tint the very same way back apt in to s house where 1 knew I 1 should her news of what was become of lord and resolved again upon coln for lo 10 idon so ve set out as soon as it was dark but we dine hv the mill again we and no mind to be questioned a second time there and asked of Pen derell whether he could swim or no and how deep the river was he told roe it wis a scurvy river not etsy to he in all places bcd hit he not swim ao I 1 told bilm that the arter being but a tittle one 1 would under i take to help him our upon which we went over some weeds by alie alv er side and I 1 entering alie river first to see whether 1 could 10 avei since I 1 knew how to swim found thit it was but a little above my middle and thereupon taking render ell by the liand I 1 helped him over seeing but not being seen this being done we went our dav to one of Ien derell s brothers alio biad been guide to dinv inv aird almot and lie believed by hint time be con ini back again for wilmot intended to go to I 1 ondon upon his own hoise hen 1 came to ills house I 1 inquired my lord was it byln now toward morning and having aled these two nights on foot ien derell s brother told me th it he and conducted him to a very honest gen houe not far from wolver hampton I 1 asked him aliat news ue told me that there acis one careless in the house whom 1 knew he having been A major in our army I 1 sent for him into the room where 1 was and consulted with him what we should do alie net da he told me that it would be very dangerous fo me either to stav in that house or to go into the woods there being a great wood haid by tha he knew but ne way how to pass the net daiy diy and that was to get up into a great oak in a pretty plain place where we billit nil lit see round about us for alie enemy would certainly search the wood for our people had made their escape biorn alie bathe of which proposition of his 1 approving we tant I 1 beni out and carried up some for the whole div vla bread cheese small beer and nothing else and koi up into a nut oak alin had been lopped some oliree or four years before and lulng grown out again very bushy and thick could not he seen through and here we staved all the day U alle we were in this tree we saw soldiers t olne up and down the thicket of alie wood searching for persons escaped we seeing them now and then peeping out of the wood that night Pen derell and I 1 went to mr abou six or seven miles off when I 1 found th gentleman of the house here 1 spoke with lord and sent bilm away to colonel lanes about anve or els miles off to see what me ins could he found for my escaping towards lon don who told my lord after some consultation ern alia t he had a sister that had a very fair chance of going by bristol to a cousin of h rs that was married to one mr norton who lived two or three miles towards bristol on Somerset shire side and ahe might me thither as tier serving man and from bristol 1 ellit find shipping to get out of this ends the narrative as the king himself set it down disguised as ft common man servant and after ganv perils he did escape brosi to scot land and return following alie res oration and became one of the most picturesque most uncertain and most dissolute rulers great eve bad by tb bell syndicate ine |