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A Mason's Adventure;
" His Majesty being thus , as they hoped , in a way of security , the Duke , Earl of Derby , Earl of Lauderdail , Lord Talbot , and the rest , ( having Mr . Giffard for their guide , and being then not above forty horse , of which number his Majesty ' s pad-nag was one , rode by Mr . Richard Lane , one of the grooms of the bed-chamber , ) marched from Whiteladies northward , by the way of Newport , in hope to overtake or meet General Lesley with the main body of Scotch horse .
" But to return" ( after a long detail of the adventures of these gentlemen , says our curious old author , who was evidently present in the transactions he relates , ) " to the duty of my attendance on his sacred Majesty in Spring Coppice ; by that time llichard Penderel had conveyed him into the obscurest part of it ; it was about sun-rising on Thursday morning , and the heavens wept bitterly at these calamities , insomuch that the thickest tree in the wood was not able to keep his
Majesty dry , nor was there any thing for him to sit on ; wherefore Richard went to Francis Yates' house , ( a trusty neighbour who married his wife ' s sister , ) where he borrowed a blanket , which he folded and laid on the ground under a tree , for his Majesty to sit on . " At the same time Richard spoke to the gcod wife Yates , to provide some victuals , and bring it into the wood at a place he appointed her , she presentlmade ready a mess of milkand some butter and eggs
y , , and brought them to his Majesty in the wood ; who , being a little surprized to see the woman , ( no good concealer of a secret , ) said cheavfully to her , yood woman , can you be faithful to a distress- 'd cavalier ? She answered , Yes , Sir , I will die rather than discover you ; with which answer his Majesty was well satisfied . "
After another digression , the history relates : — " On Thursday night , when it grew dark , his Majesty resolved to go from those parts into Wales , ancl to take Richard Penderel with him for his guide ; but , before they began their journey , his Majesty went into Richard ' s house at Uobbal Grange , where the old goodwife Penderel had not only the honour to see his Majesty , but to see him attended by her son Richard-Here his Majesty bail time ancl means better to complete his disguise . His name was agreed to be William Jonesand his arms a wood-bill .
, In this posture , about nine o ' clock at night ( after some refreshment taken in the house ) , his Majesty , with his trusty servant Richard , began their journey on foot , resolving to go that night to Madely , in Shropshire , about five miles from H hiteladies , and within a mile of the river Severn , over which their way lay for Wales ; in this village lived one Mr . Woolf , an honest gentleman of Richard ' s acquaintance . Before his Majesty came to Madelyhe 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 JKic / tortZ knew it not , and had then in his house some considerable persons of his Majesty ' s army , who took shelter there in their flight from Worcester , and had not been long in the mill , so that the miller was upon his watch , and Richard , unhappily permitting a gate to clap through which they passed , gave occasion to the miller to come out of the mill ancl boldly ask—Who is
there ? Richard , thinking the miller had pursued them , quitted the usual way in some haste , and led his Majesty over a little brook , which they were forced to wade through , and which contributed much towards the surbating and galling his Majesty ' s feet . Here his Majesty ( as he afterwards pleasantly observed ) was in some danger of losing his guide ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Mason's Adventure;
" His Majesty being thus , as they hoped , in a way of security , the Duke , Earl of Derby , Earl of Lauderdail , Lord Talbot , and the rest , ( having Mr . Giffard for their guide , and being then not above forty horse , of which number his Majesty ' s pad-nag was one , rode by Mr . Richard Lane , one of the grooms of the bed-chamber , ) marched from Whiteladies northward , by the way of Newport , in hope to overtake or meet General Lesley with the main body of Scotch horse .
" But to return" ( after a long detail of the adventures of these gentlemen , says our curious old author , who was evidently present in the transactions he relates , ) " to the duty of my attendance on his sacred Majesty in Spring Coppice ; by that time llichard Penderel had conveyed him into the obscurest part of it ; it was about sun-rising on Thursday morning , and the heavens wept bitterly at these calamities , insomuch that the thickest tree in the wood was not able to keep his
Majesty dry , nor was there any thing for him to sit on ; wherefore Richard went to Francis Yates' house , ( a trusty neighbour who married his wife ' s sister , ) where he borrowed a blanket , which he folded and laid on the ground under a tree , for his Majesty to sit on . " At the same time Richard spoke to the gcod wife Yates , to provide some victuals , and bring it into the wood at a place he appointed her , she presentlmade ready a mess of milkand some butter and eggs
y , , and brought them to his Majesty in the wood ; who , being a little surprized to see the woman , ( no good concealer of a secret , ) said cheavfully to her , yood woman , can you be faithful to a distress- 'd cavalier ? She answered , Yes , Sir , I will die rather than discover you ; with which answer his Majesty was well satisfied . "
After another digression , the history relates : — " On Thursday night , when it grew dark , his Majesty resolved to go from those parts into Wales , ancl to take Richard Penderel with him for his guide ; but , before they began their journey , his Majesty went into Richard ' s house at Uobbal Grange , where the old goodwife Penderel had not only the honour to see his Majesty , but to see him attended by her son Richard-Here his Majesty bail time ancl means better to complete his disguise . His name was agreed to be William Jonesand his arms a wood-bill .
, In this posture , about nine o ' clock at night ( after some refreshment taken in the house ) , his Majesty , with his trusty servant Richard , began their journey on foot , resolving to go that night to Madely , in Shropshire , about five miles from H hiteladies , and within a mile of the river Severn , over which their way lay for Wales ; in this village lived one Mr . Woolf , an honest gentleman of Richard ' s acquaintance . Before his Majesty came to Madelyhe 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 JKic / tortZ knew it not , and had then in his house some considerable persons of his Majesty ' s army , who took shelter there in their flight from Worcester , and had not been long in the mill , so that the miller was upon his watch , and Richard , unhappily permitting a gate to clap through which they passed , gave occasion to the miller to come out of the mill ancl boldly ask—Who is
there ? Richard , thinking the miller had pursued them , quitted the usual way in some haste , and led his Majesty over a little brook , which they were forced to wade through , and which contributed much towards the surbating and galling his Majesty ' s feet . Here his Majesty ( as he afterwards pleasantly observed ) was in some danger of losing his guide ,