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martyr at Boulton), his majesty, having given particular thanks to Colonel Gunter for his great care, pains, and fidelity towards him, took shipping with the Lord Wilmot, in the bark which lay in readiness for him at that harbour, and whereof Mr. Nicholas Tetersal was owner; and the next day, with an auspicious gale of wind, landed safely at Fecamp, near Havre de Grace, in Normandy; where his majesty might happily say with David, "Thou hast delivered me from the violent man; therefore will I sing praises to thy name, O Lord."

This very bark, after his majesty's happy restoration, was by Captain Tetersal brought into the river Thames, and lay some months at anchor before Whitehall, to renew the memory of the happy service it had performed.

His majesty, having nobly rewarded Captain Tetersal in gold for his transportation, lodged this night at an inn in Fecamp, and the next day rode to Rouen, still attended by the faithful Lord Wilmot, where he continued, incognito, several days at Mr. Scot's house, since created baronet, till he had sent an express to the queen, his royal mother, who had been long solicitous to hear of his safety, and the court of France, intimating his safe arrival there, and had quitted his disguised habit for one more befitting the dignity of so great a king.

Upon the first intelligence of this welcome news, his highness the Duke of York sent his coach forthwith to attend his majesty at Rouen, and the Lord Gerard, with others his majesty's servants, made all possible haste, with glad hearts, to perform their duty to him; so that on the 29th of October, his majesty set forward towards Paris, lay that night at Fleury, about seven leagues from Rouen; the next morning his royal brother, the Duke of York, was ready to receive him at Magnie, and that evening his majesty was met at Mouceaux, a village near Paris, by the Queen of England, accompanied with her brother, the Duke of Orleans, and attended by a great number of coaches, and many both English and French lords and gentlemen on horseback, and was thus gladly conducted the same night, though somewhat late, to the Louvre, at Paris, to the inexpressible joy of his dear mother the

queen, his royal brother the Duke of York, and of all true hearts.

Here we must again, with greater reason, humbly contemplate the admirable providence of Almighty God, which certainly never appeared more miraculously than in this strange deliverance of his majesty from such an infinity of dangers, that history itself cannot produce a parallel, nor will posterity willingly believe it.

From the 3rd of September, at Worcester, to the 15th of October, at Brighthelmstone, being one-and-forty days, he passed through more dangers than he travelled miles, of which yet he traversed in that time only near three hundred (not to speak of his dangers at sea, both at his coming into Scotland, and his going out of England, nor of his long march from Scotland to Worcester), sometimes on foot with uneasy shoes; at other times on horseback, encumbered with a portmanteau ; and which was worse, at another time on the gall-backed, slowpaced miller's horse; sometimes acting one disguise in coarse linen and a leather doublet, sometimes another of almost as bad a complexion; one day he is forced to skulk in a barn at Madeley, another day sits with Colonel Carlos in a tree, with his feet extremely galled, and at night glad to lodge with William Penderel in a secret place at Boscobel, which never was intended for the dormitory of a king.

Sometimes he was forced to shift with coarse fare for a bellyful; another time in a wood, glad to relieve the necessities of nature with a mess of milk, served up in a homely dish by good-wife Yates, a poor country-woman; then again, for a variety of tribulation, when he thought himself almost out of danger, he directly meets some of those rebels who so greedily sought his blood, yet, by God's great providence, had not the power to discover him; and (which is more than has yet been mentioned) he sent at another time to some subjects for relief and assistance in his great necessity, who, out of a pusillanimous fear of the bloody arch-rebel then reigning, durst not own him.

Besides all this, 'twas not the least of his afflictions daily to hear the Earl of Derby, and other his loyal subjects, some murdered, some imprisoned, and others sequestered in heaps,

by the same bloody usurper, only for performing their duty to their lawful king. In a word, there was no kind of misery (but death itself) of which his majesty, in this horrible persecution, did not in some measure, both in body, mind, and estate, bear a very great share; yet such was his invincible patience in this time of trial, such his fortitude, that he overcame them all with such pious advantage to himself, that their memory is now sweet, and "it was good for him that he had been afflicted."

Of these his majesty's sufferings and forced extermination from his own dominions, England's great chancellor * thus excellently descants:

"We may tell those desperate wretches, who yet harbour in their thoughts wicked designs against the sacred person of the king, in order to the compassing their own imaginations, that God Almighty would not have led him through so many wildernesses of afflictions of all kinds, conducted him through so many perils by sea, and perils by land, snatched him out of the midst of this kingdom when it was not worthy of him, and when the hands of his enemies were even upon him, when they thought themselves so sure of him, that they would bid so cheap and so vile a price for him. He would not in that article have so covered him with a cloud, that he travelled even with some pleasure and great observation through the midst of his enemies. He would not so wonderfully have new modelled that army; so inspired their hearts, and the hearts of the whole nation, with an honest and impatient longing for the return of their dear sovereign, and in the mean time have exercised him (which had little less of providence in it than the other) with those unnatural, or at least unusual, disrespects and reproaches abroad, that he might have a harmless and an innocent appetite to his own country, and return to his own people, with a full value, and the whole unwasted bulk of his affections, without being corrupted or biassed by extraordinary foreign obligations. God Almighty would not have done all this but for a servant whom he will always preserve as the apple of his own eye, and always defend from the most secret machinations of his enemies."

* Edward, Earl of Clarendon. See p. 291 of the Appendix to his lordship's "History of the Grand Rebellion."

Thus the best and happiest of orators.

Some may haply here expect I should have continued the particulars of this history to the time of his majesty's happy restoration, by giving an account of the reception his majesty found from the several princes beyond the seas, during his exile, and of his evenness of mind and prudent deportment towards them upon all occasions; but that was clearly beyond the scope of my intention, which aimed only to write the wonderful history of a great and good king, violently pursued in his own dominions by the worst of rebels, and miraculously preserved, under God, by the best of subjects.

In other countries, of which his majesty traversed not a few, he found kindness and a just compassion of his adversity from many, and from some a neglect and disregard; yet, in all the almost nine years abroad, I have not heard of any passage that approached the degree of a miracle like that at home; therefore I may, with faith to my own intentions, not improperly make a silent transition from his majesty's arrival at Paris, on the 13th day of October, 1651, to his return to London on the 29th of May, 1660; and, with a Te Deum laudamus, sum up all, and say with the prophet: "My lord the king is come again in peace to his own house." * "And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king!"+

*2 Sam. xix. 30.

† 1 Sam. xx. 24.

INDEX.

ANNE of Austria, notice of, 84, 328.
Aremberg, Prince d', 88.
Arlington, Lord, his character, 143;

his interview with Miss Stewart,
ib.; notices of, 364; sends to
Holland for a wife, 144, 364.
Arscot, Duke d', 88.

Arran, Earl of, notice of, 107, 344;
admirer of Lady Shrewsbury,
119; his remarks on Miss Hyde,
163, 164; plays the guitar, 174.
Arras, siege of, 85, 330.

Bagot, Miss, 217; her acquaintance
with Miss Hobart, 220; married
to Lord Falmouth, 221; notice of,
382.

Bapaume, notice of, 93, 331.

fainting fits, 279; marries Talbot,
320; notice of, 386, 415.
Brice, Gregorio, defended Lerida,
152.

Brinon, valet de chambre to Count
Grammont, 41; leaves Paris with
the Count, 43; reprimanded by
the Count, 44; tries to persuade
the Count from gaming, 47.
Brisacier, Marquis de, intrigues with
Miss Blague, 126, 128.

Brissac, Duke de, duped by Gram-
mont, 201.

Bristol, Earl of, his parties, 171, 368.
Brooks, Miss, notices of, 105, 350;
intrigues with the Duke of York,
171; marries Sir John Denham,
172. See Denham.

Bardou, Mad., maid of honour, 210; Brounker

quits the court, 216.

Barker, Mrs., notice of, 385.
Barry, Mrs., notice of, 385.
Batteville, Baron de, notices of, 55,
327.

Bellenden, Miss, maid of honour,

210; quits the court, 216.
Berkley, Sir George, governed the
Duke of York, 106, 343.
Bidache, campaign at, 42, 327.
Blague, Col., notice of, 498.
Blague, Miss, plotted against by Miss
Hamilton, 125; notice of, 358;
intrigues with the Marquis de Bri-
sacier, 128; at the masquerade,
135; her eyes called 'marcassins,'
218; marries Sir Thomas Yarbo-
rough, 218.

Blood, Col., anecdotes of, 440.
Bold, John, assisted Charles II. 497.
Boscobel, origin of the name, 483;
oak of, 515.

Boynton, Miss, alluded to, 217; falls
in love with Talbot, 247;

her

follows Miss Jennings,
259; notices of, 392.
Buckhurst, See Dorset.
Buckingham, Duke of, dissipates his

estate, 106, 343; his familiarity
with Miss Stewart, 142; his buf-
foonery with Lady Muskerry, 272;
intrigues with Lady Shrewsbury,
297; kills her husband in a duel,
299; notices and anecdotes of,
361, 404; his talent for ridicule,
425; his proposal for stealing the
queen, 431; reproved by Charles
II., 453; escapes with Charles
from Worcester, 491.
Buckingham, Duchess of, notice of,
299, 404.

Bussi, his description of Grammont,

35; Voltaire's account of, 323.
Byron, Lady, notice of, 429.

Cæsars de Vendôme, notice of, 40,326.
Cameran, Count de, invited to sup-
per by Grammont, 51; loses at
quinze, 52.

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