The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-01-15
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DUDLETs EsOAPK-:

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DUDLEx,s EsCAPke -l
IHarknsss's MaEazinS.1 ~ --
"WeH, Master Dudley, and what news
haye you nOW2o How fares the cause Of
his Majesty the King" bs5l5s ll
! The speaker was q Woreestershire
squire. The person whom he addressed
was q man of fine presence. and military
bearing; of good deseentS yet with ; deci-
dsd business turn. His father had been a
noblemAn and at the same time an iron
manufacturer. This son had left Oxford
at twenty to assume direction. Of his faith
er's forge, and furnaces In such work he
was deeply interested and actively en-
! gagged when the great civil war breke out
the war between Charles /, and the peo-
pie of England. But Dudley had, by
reason of birth and educzhm, espoused
the cause of the King, aud had risen to
the rank of general of artillery. After
many successes by the Parliamentary ar
my q lull had fallen, which was brsken IN
1z46 by tumults and Hprisings in Wales.
The influence of this commotion had ex-
tended through all England, but the Wig
orons measures of Fairfax, the Parliament
tary commander, had compelled the con-
eentrations of ths insurgents at Colchester,
in Essex. Against them q strenuous siege
was being carried onsby Fairfax At the
time our story opens
I "Illl enough mester dodg l1ny RAs
Dudley answer. HOur friends are hard
Seset IN Colchester, and the Round Lhead
Cromwell is sitting down before Penn
broke. Yet both places make gallant
resistance, and the right cause may yet
Triumph"
"Twers good deed now to raise troops
4 ne ar.e \ -. -
KING Charles while the crop-ears are busy
Otherwhere. =.." 7i
"Yea, neigh5or you have reason or
your side, and nay blood tingles to recover
for his Majesty something of what he has
lost IN these evil times BeshreW me, but
! it shall be done.
j. SO Dudley rode forth among his neigh
bors. "Harcourt,' he said to one who had
been Major IN the royal forces during
the struggle that ended IN 1915; "Har-
court. shall We not make head once more
for our good lord and king He hath right
to our swords and hives and 1t is to our
shame that We lie still when our friends
elsewhere are In peril for the cause"
with all my heart, Dudley" was the
answer. Yea, l will ride with you to
rouse the country side, and take the field
against the frantic rebels whose successes
have made them more Insolent than 1 can
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They rsde together, therefore and gath
cred about thsm many more gentlemen
ana their adherents, until they could
number two hundred men.
In the neighborhood of the village of
Madeley. of Stafordshire, the place where i
John Ftetcher lived and wrote more than
century later, was wsod called Bosce
Bello. The rendezvous of Dudley and his
friends was appointed there for safety and
secrecy until 8ucn time az, being drilled
and organized; their forces might be fit for
hone teasible enterprises. os.-a5 .- a--
o1iBnt, IN the meantime, the adhersnts of
the Parliament had not been idle, either.
One bright morning q company of Pnri.
tans marched into the wood with the firm
purpose of destroying the "malienants -
a. they termed them: In vain Dudley and
hIe fellow Officers, urged their followers to \
the conflict The desperate intensity Of
the Parliament men was not to be With
Stood and In comparatively few minutes
they were wholly triumphant Many of
the poor follows who had meant, to fight
for the divine night Of kings lay dead nn-
der the trees of Bosco Bello, and of those
who renamed slive nearly all were taken
PRISONERS. Among tkese were the officers
ana men of mark, Elth Dudley at their
head. 7=7--- n y z57 90 .5s.7.-
so, master Dudley said the leader Of
the successful party, %here is but an III end
OF your misplaced loyalty. A man like
yon had better feared God, and fought for
the PsrliGneut, than to be misissaino
tenants Gnd servants To death for q tyrant
and traitor -ai.sll -
I "a % False traitor, thsu, cried Dudley; "on
thee and such as thou be- the curse of all
the blood split, aud the desOlation made
IN our far countFysshazl -- ..a- p ?
!. de would have gone on In his passion-
ate utterancsss but the Puritan commander
cut him short. '-' 10 -, Z. - ,----r-s
50 AXE master Dudle9 and his tehow-1
IMMIGRANTS to worcester 2 said he; he
once Eiorthed lt against rs ;aAoW that il il
N our hands st-him test its strength as a
prison" =
So Dudley and HafeoOrt. with MAJOR
Elliott and 0thersg dsefestakeny away to 4
Worcester, which, Dudley had indeed
Estreng gthened and fortified for ths King,
sbutl V hich had SINCE fallen into the haAds1 4
Of his e8emiess The JreA thent OF the CAP.
lives WIS lar from gentle, Tor those were
rough as1Well As eaEaest times. 81 When
they reached the city they " are conducted
10 4he Prlson like dangerous fslonsF and
street measures were taken for their safe
Edesenlion. = sa.sil s.si-- -sr5-s7 p ~
t;dOnhle guards bestaLioned at the
prison DOORS 10, be relieved every fonr
hours. Double guards likewise at every
eEts At the city, and str1ct watch at every
Eoptfet, that no knaVes an Z traitors NAV
escape. pa Such were the arders given in
the presence Of Dudley and his company,
who were then pnshed into the courtyard /
Fof the prison; and presently locked In
large upper1oom. There they were left
to such meditations as the place and cir
-eumstances might suggest. d.5- ssi af--tt
Immediate escape iBWhat they suggest-
ed to Dudley He looked. carefully for
means tS that endp oI sgonlel os... rl-7E .-
The window was barredwit iron, Dud-
ley, helped by bis comrades, climbed up
and looked out Far below lay the roofs
of the adjacent houses, which, as always
in the crowded, walled cities, stood close
together, and were even built against the
very. walls Of tAe Jail. =, 90.
sseIf had but q knife or 9. dagger, and
you would bear me up,HHsaid DGdIey, 81
would soon dig these bars ont Of theirbed.
and tisk-the, leap to the tiles below. ~ 81
) 6BnE neither knife nor dagger was IL the |
company. - They had besn. too, thoroughly \
searched and completely slptnhdered a. |
Wkereiore, Dudley came down again, and |
sat ambno hia 1allON- priSOnoFs rheipfeesd