had hired another vessel or ship; as soon
as we came to FW's. I sent away pre-
sently to Col. Robt Phillips's, who then
lived at Salisbury, to see what he c'd do
for the getting me a ship, which he un-
dertook very willingly, and had got one
at Southampton, but by misfortune she
was amongst others prest to transport
their soldiers to Jersey, by which she
failed us also; upon this I sent further
into Sussex, where Robin Phillips knew
one Col. Gunter, to see wether he could
hire a ship any where upon that coast,
and not thinking it convenient for me to
stay any longer at Fk W's, wher I had
been in or about a fortnight, and was
become known to very many. I went
away to a widdow gentlewoman's house,
one Mrs. Hyde, some four or five miles
from Salisbury, wher I came into the
house just as it was almost dark, with
Robin Phillips only, not intending at first
to make myself known. But just as
I alighted at the door, Mrs. Hyde knew
me, though she never had seen me but
once in her life before, and that was
with the king, my father, in the army,
when we marched by Salisbury some
years before in the time of the war; but
she being a discreet woman, took no
notice at that time of me; I passing
only for a friend of Robin Phillips's, by
whose advice I went thither. At supper
there were with us, Frederick Hyde,
(since a judge) and his sister-in-law, a
widdow; Robin Phillips, myself, and
doct Henshaw, since bishop of London,
whom I had appointed to meet me there.
While we were at supper, I observed
Mrs. Hyde and her brother Frederick, to
look a little earnestly at me, which led
me to believe they might know me. But
I was not at all startled at it, it having
been my purpose to let her know who I
was; and accordingly immediately after
supper, Mrs. Hyde came to me, and I
discovered myself to her, who told ine
she had a very safe place to hide me in,
till we knew wether our ship was ready
or not, but she said, it was not safe to
trust any body but herself and sister,
and therefore advised me to take my
horse the next morning, and make as if
I quitted the house, and return again
about night, for she would order it so that
all her servants, and every body should
be out of the house but herself and sister,
whose name I remember not. So Robin
Phillips and I took our horses, and went
as far as Stonehenge, and there we stay'd
looking upon the stones some time, and
returned back again to Heale, the place

where Mrs. Hyde lived, about the time
appointed, wher I went up into the
hiding-hole, that was very convenient
and safe, and stayed there all alone;
Robin Phillips then going to Salisbury,
some four or five days, somtimes Mrs.
Hyde, and. somtimes her sister, bringing
me meat. After four or five days stay,
Robin Phillips came to the house, and
acquainted me that a ship was ready
provided for ine at Shoreham, by Col.
Gunter, upon which, at two o'clock in
the morning, I went out of the house by
a back way, and with Robin Phillips met
Col. Gunter and my Wilmot together,
some fourteen or fifteen miles off, on
our way towards Shoreham, and were to
lodge that night at a place called Ham-
bleton, seven miles from Portsmouth,
because it was too long a journey to go
in one day to Shoreham; and here we lay
at a house of a brother-in-laws of Coln
Gunter, one Mr. Symonds, where I was
not to be known, I being still in the same
grey cloth suit as a serving man, tho' the
inaster of the house was a very honest
poor man, who, while we were at supper
came, (he having been all the day play-
ing the good-fellow at an ale-house in
the town), and taking a stool, sat down
with us, where his brother-in-law, Col"
Gunter, talking very fullingly concerning
Cromwelt and all his party, he went and
wispered his brother-in-law in the ear,
and asked wether I was not some round,
headed rogue's son, for I looked very
suspiciously. Upon which Cola Gunter
answering for me, that he might trust his
life in my hands, he came and took me
by the hand, and drinking a good glass
of beer to me, called me brother round-
head. About that time, my ld South-
ampton, that was then at Titchfield, sus
pecting (for what reason I do not know)
that it was possible I might be in the
country, sent either to Robin Phillips,
or Doct. Henshaw, to offer his services,
if he cd assist me in my escape, but
being then provided with a ship: I
w'd not put him to the danger of having
any thing to do with it. The next day
we went to a place called Brighton or
Brighthelmstone, where we were to meet
the master of the ship, as thinking it
more convenient to meet there than jusɛ
at Shoreham, where the ship was; so
when we came to the inn at Brighthelin-
stone, we met with one Mr.
the merchant; who had hired the vessel,
in company with her master, the mer-
chant only knowing me, having hired her
only to carry over a person of quality

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ourselves just before an harbour in France called Feckham, and just as the tide of ebb was made, espied a ship to leward of us, which by her nimble working, I suspected to be an Ostend priva. teer, upon which I went to my lord Wilmot, and telling him my opinion of that ship, proposed to him our going on shore in the little cock-boat, for fear they she prove so, as not knowing, but finding us going into a port of France, there being then a war between France and Spain, they might plunder us, and might possibly carry us away, and set us ashore in England; the master also himself had the same opinion of her being an Ostender, and came to me to tell me so. Which tho' I made it my business to disswaid him from, for fear it shd tempt him to set sail back again with us for the coast of England, yet so sensible was I of it, that I and my 14 Wilmot went both on shore in the cock-boat, and going up into the town of Feckham, stayed there all day to provid horses for Rouen; the vessel which so affrighted us proved only a French sloop. The next day we got to Rouen, to an inn, one of the best in the town, in the fish-markett, where they mad a difficulty to receive us, taking us by our cloths to be some thieves, or persons that had been doing some very ill thing, untill Mr. Sanbourne, a merchant for whom I sent, came and answered for us. One particular more there is observable in relation to this our passage into France, that they vessel that brot us over had no sooner landed me, and I had given then a pass for fear of meeting with any of our Jersey frigates, that the wind turned so happely for her, as to carry her directly over to Pool, without it being known that she had ever been upon the coast of France. We stayed at Rouen one day, to provide ourselves better cloths, and give notice to the queen, my mother, who was then at Paris, of my being safely landed; after which, setting out in a hired coach, I

was met by my mother with coaches, short of Paris, and by her conducted thither, where I safely arived.

A few

Notes of the King's, relating

to the foregoing Narrative.

There were six brothers of the Penderell's, who all of them knew the secret, and as I have since learnt from one of them, the man in whose house I changed my cloths, came to one of them about two days after, and asking where I was, told him he might get a 1000 pounds if they wd tell, because there was that sum laid upon my head; but this Pende rell was so honest, altho' he knew at that time where I was, he bid him have a care what he did, for that I being got out of all reach, if they she now discover I had ever been there, they wd get nothing but hanging for their pains.

It was Mr. Giffard that brought me acquainted with the White Ladies.

I would not change my cloths at any of the Penderell's houses, because I meant to make farther use of them, and they might be suspected, but rather chose to do it in a house where they were not papists, I neither knowing then, nor to this day, what the man's name was at whose house I did it. The Penderells' have since endeavoured to mitigate the business of their being tempted by their neighbours to discover

me.

But one of them did certainly declared it to me at that time.

I did not depend upon meeting my lord Wilmot, but sent only to know what was become of him; for he and I had agreed to meet at London, at the Three Cranes, in the Vintry, and to enquire for Will Ashburnham.

When I got to Trent, Mrs. Lane and Mr. Lassels went home.

I could never get my lord Wilmot to put on any disguise, he saying, that he sh'd look frightfully in it, and therefore did not put on any.

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