The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-01-09
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DUDLEY'S ESCAPE


have you nowf Howiares The case Of his
Majesty the KingFg 2 iS
The speaker vas a WotcesteIshire
squire. The person HON he addressed
was a man Of fine presence and military
bearing; Of good descent, yet with q de.
Cided business turn. His father had been
nobleman and at the same time an iron
manufacturer. This son had left Oxford
at twenty to assume direction Of his
iatheE's forge and furnaces. In such
work he was deeply interested and &C.
lively engaged when the great civil war
broke out-the war between Charles l.
and the people Of England. Dud Dudley
had, by reason OF bifih and, education, Is.
poused the cause Of the King, and had
risen TO the rank Of general OF artillery.
After many successes by the Parliament.
ary army a lull had fallen, which was
broken IN 1649 by the tumults and upris.
ings in Wales. The influence Of this
cOmmotion had extended through all
England, but the vigorous measured O.
Fairfax, the Parliamentary commander,
had compelled the concentration OF the In.
surgents at Colchester, In Essex. Against
them q strenuous siege was being. carried
on BY Fairfax at the time our story opens.
"nl enough, master HOdgson, was
Dudley's answer. sour friends are hard
bestead In Colchester, and the Roundhead
Cromwell is sitting down before Penn
broke. Yet both places make gallant re;
slstances, and the right cause may yet
triumph" - -
"'Twere a good Ideed now to raise
troops here in the west and strike q blow
Tor King Charles while the crop. ears are
busy otherwhere." .il.alas re5 b1-
"Yea, neighbor; you have reason on
your side, and my blood tingles TO recov.
or Tor his Majesty something Of what he
has lost in these eviltimes. Beshrew me,
but 1t shall be DONE" nj ar f.. ea.I5
SO Dudley rode forth among his neigh.
bors. "Harcourt," he said 10 one who
had been major in the royal forces dur
ing the struggle that ended In 1915 /:
"Harcourt, shall we not make head once
more for our good lord and kingI He
hath rightto our swords and lives; and Il
is 10 our shame that we lie still when our
friends elsewhere arc arc in peril for the
cause" .SEb I1E 81 gstliaR gI.
"Withall my heart. Dudley, r was the
suswera HYea, Twill ride with you to
rouse the country side, and take the field
against the frantic rebels, whose success
has made them more iusolent than | can
bear,"I l-Lh ~ : III "a B5lE43II
They rodsatogelhG, D therefore, and
gathered sboutthem many more gentle.
men, and their adherents, until they could
number tWo'hundred ,menEsss.s,isssss.ss
In the neighborhood OF the village OF
Madeley, in Stafordshire, the place where
John Fletcher lived and wrote more than
century later, was q wood called Bosco
Bello. The rendezvous Of Dudley and
his friends was appointed there for safety
and secrecy until such time as, being
drilled and organized, their forces might
be 1t for some feasible enterprise,
But In the meantime, the adhefents of
The Parliament had not been Idle either.
One bright morning 4 compan my OF Pur.
itans marched Into the wood with the
urn purpose Of destroying the "malig-
nants," as they termed them. In vain
Dudley and his fellow officers urged their
followers 10 the conflict. The desperate
intensity Of the Parliament men was not
!oloe Withstood, and in comparatively a
lew minutes they were wholly triumph
ant Many Of the poor fellows who had
meant TO fight for the divine right Of
kings lay dead under the trees OF Bosco
bello, and OF those who remained alive
nearly albRefeitaken prisoners, Among
these were tho officers and men Of mari
with Dudley at their head.
80, master Dudley, nBAid the leader Of
the successful party, there Is but an III
end OF your misplaced, loyalty. A mar
like you had better have feared Goa, and
fought for the Parliament, than to bt
misleading tenants and servants 10 death
Tor tyrant and traitor.n
False traitor, thou" cried Dudley: cor
thee and such as thou be the curse Of All
me blood split, and the desolation made
IN our fair country,n r.c9
de would have gone on in his passion.
ave nttetances, but the Puritan command
er cut him short, &,4f. IA GIV7
. rake master Dudley and his fellow
msngnanls 70 Worcester" said he; "hC
once fortified II against Us; now that Il h
IN al, our hands lei him test ftssttength as /
nE 30 Dudley and Hsrcourt, With Maid,
Elliott and others, were taken away' Il
V worcester, which Dudley had indeed
strengthened and fortified for the KIM
" oSs Wnlcn aad since fallen into the hafiCiI
o. MS enemies. The treatment Of the can
uves was far from gentle, for thoss ,s t w
rough as we'll Ss eafneSii timsss W. y a'
they reached the city they were condnc .tsi
70 ihe prison like dangerous IsIons N al;
Sulct measures were taken for mar All Is
detention. = : ''N - 'S ~ 3 'u " say
lei double guards be stationed M n,
PRISON doors, to DO relieved eye s y IN ~
hours. Double guards likewise Al ev ,Ss
gs@ a tas city, eptSSlct watch Al ever ever
oule1 that no bnayeS ana tfait6is ~ y
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