The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-10-25

- -
|N Solutely lost as to be be-
u yond hope of recovery, /
began to think of the best
way of saving myself; and the first
thought that came into my head was
that, if l could possibly, would get
to London as soon, if not sooner.
than the news of our defeat could
get thither; and it being near dark, I
talked with some, especially with
Lord Rochester, afterwards Lord Will
mot, about their opinions which would
be the best way for me to escape, it
being impossible, as / thought. to get
back into Scotland. / found them
nightly distracted, and their opin-
ions different, of the possibility of
getting to Scotland, but not on agree
ing with mine for going to London,
saving Lord Wilmot; and the truth is
l did not impart my design of going
to London to any but Wilmot. But
we had such a number of beaten men
with us that / strove, as soon as ever
it was dark, to get from them; and
though l could not get them to stand
by me against the enemy, l could not
get rid of them now / had a mind
to ii.
$50 we rode through a town short
of WOlverhamptOn, betwiXt that and
Worcester, and went through. al
though a troop of my enemies were ly-
ing there that night. We rode very
ha
nobody to watch, nor they suspecting
US no more than we did them. which
/ learned afterward from a country
fellow. .. .r.
1--WE went that night about twenty
miles to a place called White Lady'S
hard by Tong castle, by the advice of
Mr.. Giffard, where we stopped and
got some little refreshment of bread
and cheese.
And just as we came thither, there
came in a country fellow that told
US there 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 quail
ity that were with me who were very
earnest that should 60 to them and
endeavor to go into Scotland, which |
thought was absolutely impossible,
knowing very well that the country
would rise up upon us and that men
who had deserted me while they were
in good order would never stand to
me when they had been beaten.
This. made me take the resolution
of putting myself into a disguise and
ehdeavoring to get afoot to London
in a country fellows habit, wearing
pair Of ordinary gray cloth breeches,
a leathern doublet and a green jerkin
which l took In the house of White
Lady's. l also cut my hair very
short and flung my clothes into an
clubhouse that nobody might see that
anybody had been stripping them
selves.
'As soon as was disguised took
with me a country-fellow, whose name
was Richard rendered., whom Mr..
Giffard had undertaken to answer for
to be an honest man.
Up the Alley by the Mill. ..
81 was no sooner gone (being the
next morning after the battle and
then broad day. out of the house with
this country-fellow, that, being in
great wood | sat myself at the edge
of the wood near the highway that
was there the better to see who came
after US and whether they made any
search after the runaways, and l i'm
mediately saw a troop of horse COM
ing by which l conceived to be the
same troop that beat our three thou
sand horse; but it did not look like a
troop of the army's, but of the mill
tia, for the fellow before it did not
look at all like a soldier.
I'm this wood l stayed all day with
out meat or drink; and by great good
fortune it rained all the time, which
hindered them, as believe, from COM
ing into the wood to search for men
that might be fed thither. And one
thing is remarkable enough, that
those with whom / have since spoken
did say that it rained little or none
with them all the day but only in the
wood where l was-this contributing
to my safety.
The truth is, my mind changed as
i lay in the wood and l resolved of