Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1858-06-25
Chester, VT.
Escape Of Charles H., after the Bat
tie of Worcester.


| All along the Kidderminster road tha,
September night was hurry and confusion
the King knew not whittier to fy Lon.
| don was proposed; but no one except Lord
Wiimot fell in with this plan. Scotland
was next thought Of and the royal party.
separating from the main body, turned
northward. Darkness overlook them, and
at hiner Heath, near Kidderninster, they
lost their way. In this dismal plight Lord
Derby remembered Boscobel House. So on
their periloas journey they again vent
| Stourbfidge must be passed through, where
bodits of the enemy were quartered.- =
! Through lis silent streets they went with
all saes7Ss', stapSaing at lonely roadside
house out of the town for Refreshments
and just when daylight was dawning, they
found themselves at White Ladies, a seat of
the Gafford family. The kings horse, by
the way OF precaution, was stabbed in the
very hall. No time could be lost. Mr..
Gifard sent for Richard and William PEN
derel, who with their other brothers, were
tenants on his estate, and TO them commit
ted the king. Blue ribbon, and George of
diamonds, and garter, and princely orna-
ments had TO be flung away. The king 5
long black hair was cut country fashion.
ills hands and face smeared over with SCOT.
He had to exchange his own clothes for a
coarse noggen shirt, common country
mans green and greasy spit, and a leathern
doublet. While they are busy Disgusting
him, news is brought that the enemy is close
at hand. The king is hurried through a
L.. IL -, n
nto the thickest part of it do they plunge.
Morning has broken and the rain pours
heavily on the royal ltugitive,as he sits shiver-
ing at the foot of tree. All his friends.
with the exception of Wilmot, who remains
in the neighborhood under the protection of
John Penderel, have now left him; not
even daring to know where he is hid, for
fear that under coercion they might betray
the secret. They attempt to rejoin Lesley's
horse, which is as useless in retreat as it
was in battle and is soon cut TO pieces.
Lord Derby with many others is taken pris-
oner. The Duke of Buckingham, Lord
Liviston, with few more, contrive to es-
cave. Richard Penderel manages to pro-
clre blanket for The king, and his sister
in law. she good wife Yates, brings a mess
of milk, and some butter and eggs" de-
claring with true womanly affection, '',hat
shs would die rather than discover him"
A poor court, this wet wood, for a king
and yet these poor people were sincerer
courtiers than ever Charles had before
known.
In the dusk of the evening, Charles and
his guide stole out OF the wood, with the in
tention of making for Wales. AT his guide
house, Charles wa, again disguised and as
sumed the name of Will Jones kings, even
in our times, have been reduced to such
necessities. They then started for Madely,
on the banks of the Severn. On their
road there, an incident betel them, which |
we give in the words of the author of sBos-
cobel )"
.Betore his majesty came to Madeley, he
met with an ill-favored encounter at Evelin
Mill, being about two miles from thence
The miller, it seems, was an honest man
but his majesty and Richard Penderel knew
il not-and had then in his house considers
able persons of his majesty's army, who
ook shelter there in the fight from Wor-
cester, and had not been long in the mill,
20 that the miller was upon his watch and
Richard, unhappily permitting a gate to
zap through which they had passed. gave
occasion to the miller to come out and bold
y ask, Who is there 2 Richard. thinking i
he miller had pursued them. quilted the
usual way with some haste, and led his :
naj sly over little brook, which they were I
orced to wade through, and winch contrib {