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A Mason's Adventure;
proved a happy sanctuary for his Majesty in this sad exigent ) , had not at all been searched during his Majesties abode there , though that had several times ; this , perhaps , the rather escaping , because the neighbours could truly inform none but poor servants lived there . " His Majesty spent some part of this Lord ' s-day in reading in a pretty arbour in Boscobel garden , which grew upon a mount , and wherein there was a stone table , and seats about it , and commended the place for its retiredness . "
The history then informs the reader of the King ' s sending a messenger to Moselcy , where he afterwards proceeded to another hiding-place and says : " The King not being able , without a horse , not having recovered his late foot-journey , to perform this to Moseley , though only five miles from Boscobel , it was therefore concluded that his Majesty should rule upon Humphrey Penderels mill-horse , ( for Humphrey was the miller of Whiteladies' mill ) The horse taken from and
. was up grass , accoutred , not with rich trappings and furniture , befitting so great a King , but with a pitiful old saddle , ancl a worse bridle . When his Majesty was ready to take horse , Colonel Carlis humbly took leave of him , being so well known in the country , that his attendance upon his Majesty would in all probability have proved rather a disservice than otherwise ; however , his hearty prayers were not wanting for his Majesties preservation .
I bus , then , his Majesty was mounted , and thus he rode towards Moseley , attended by all the honest brothers , William , John , Richard Humphrey , and George Penderel , ancl Francis Yates . Each of these took a bill or pike-staff on his back , and some of them had pistols in their pockets ; two marched before , one on each side , his Majesties horse , and two came behind aloof off , their design being this , that in case they should have been questioned , or encountered but by five or six troopers such like small would hav
or party , they e showed their valor in defending , as well as they had done their fidelity in otherwise serviii " his Majesty ; and though it was near midnight , yet they conducted his Majesty through bye-ways , for better security . After some experience Had of the horse , his Majesty complained , It was the heaviest dull jade he ever rode on ; to which Humphrey , the owner of him , answered ( beyond the usual notion of a miller , ) My lieye ! can you blame the horse to goe heavil y , when he has the weight of three kingdoms upon his
Ihe curious old histor y then acquaints us particularly of Charles ' s sate arrival at Moseley , his various adventures there , and his progress to Bristol by means of Mrs . James , pass-riding before her on the same palfrey , and his different encounters until "he took shipping at Briiihampston , m Sussex , about the end of October , IGS 1 . " " The very next day" ( it concludes ) " after his Majesty was gone from Boscobel , being Monday , the Sth of September , two parties of rebels thitherthe of the
came , one being part county troop , who searched the house with some civility ; the other , Captain Broadwagcs men these searched severely , eat up their little store of provision , plundered the house of what was portable , and one of them presented a pistol to William Penderel , and much frightened my Dame Joan ¦ yet both parties returned as empty as they came of ' that intelligence they so greedily sought after . This danger being over , honest William began to think of making satisfaction for the fat mutton , and accordingly tendered Mr . Staunton its worth in money ; but Staunton ., undcrstandiii"
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A Mason's Adventure;
proved a happy sanctuary for his Majesty in this sad exigent ) , had not at all been searched during his Majesties abode there , though that had several times ; this , perhaps , the rather escaping , because the neighbours could truly inform none but poor servants lived there . " His Majesty spent some part of this Lord ' s-day in reading in a pretty arbour in Boscobel garden , which grew upon a mount , and wherein there was a stone table , and seats about it , and commended the place for its retiredness . "
The history then informs the reader of the King ' s sending a messenger to Moselcy , where he afterwards proceeded to another hiding-place and says : " The King not being able , without a horse , not having recovered his late foot-journey , to perform this to Moseley , though only five miles from Boscobel , it was therefore concluded that his Majesty should rule upon Humphrey Penderels mill-horse , ( for Humphrey was the miller of Whiteladies' mill ) The horse taken from and
. was up grass , accoutred , not with rich trappings and furniture , befitting so great a King , but with a pitiful old saddle , ancl a worse bridle . When his Majesty was ready to take horse , Colonel Carlis humbly took leave of him , being so well known in the country , that his attendance upon his Majesty would in all probability have proved rather a disservice than otherwise ; however , his hearty prayers were not wanting for his Majesties preservation .
I bus , then , his Majesty was mounted , and thus he rode towards Moseley , attended by all the honest brothers , William , John , Richard Humphrey , and George Penderel , ancl Francis Yates . Each of these took a bill or pike-staff on his back , and some of them had pistols in their pockets ; two marched before , one on each side , his Majesties horse , and two came behind aloof off , their design being this , that in case they should have been questioned , or encountered but by five or six troopers such like small would hav
or party , they e showed their valor in defending , as well as they had done their fidelity in otherwise serviii " his Majesty ; and though it was near midnight , yet they conducted his Majesty through bye-ways , for better security . After some experience Had of the horse , his Majesty complained , It was the heaviest dull jade he ever rode on ; to which Humphrey , the owner of him , answered ( beyond the usual notion of a miller , ) My lieye ! can you blame the horse to goe heavil y , when he has the weight of three kingdoms upon his
Ihe curious old histor y then acquaints us particularly of Charles ' s sate arrival at Moseley , his various adventures there , and his progress to Bristol by means of Mrs . James , pass-riding before her on the same palfrey , and his different encounters until "he took shipping at Briiihampston , m Sussex , about the end of October , IGS 1 . " " The very next day" ( it concludes ) " after his Majesty was gone from Boscobel , being Monday , the Sth of September , two parties of rebels thitherthe of the
came , one being part county troop , who searched the house with some civility ; the other , Captain Broadwagcs men these searched severely , eat up their little store of provision , plundered the house of what was portable , and one of them presented a pistol to William Penderel , and much frightened my Dame Joan ¦ yet both parties returned as empty as they came of ' that intelligence they so greedily sought after . This danger being over , honest William began to think of making satisfaction for the fat mutton , and accordingly tendered Mr . Staunton its worth in money ; but Staunton ., undcrstandiii"