Boscobel: Or, The History of his Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation After the Battle of Worcester, 3. Sept. 1651Blount, Thomas
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Boscobel: Or, The History of his Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation After the Battle of Worcester, 3. Sept. 1651
Blount, Thomas
Boscobel (England) -- Early works to 1800; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685 -- Early works to 1800
On Sunday morning (Sept. the seventh) his Majesty got up early (his
dormitory being none of the best, nor his bed the easiest,) and near
the secret place where he lay, had the convenience of a gallery to walk
in, where he was observ'd to spend some time in his devotions, and
where he had the advantage of a window, which surveid the road from
Tong to Brewood; Soon after his Majesty coming down into the parlor his
nose fell a bleeding, which put his poor faithful servants into a great
fright, but his Majesty was pleased soon to remove it, by telling them,
It often did so.
As soon as the mutton was cold, William cut it up and brought a leg of
it into the parlor, his Majesty cal'd for a knife and a trencher, and
cut some of it into collops and prick'd them with the knif's point,
then cal'd for a frying pan and butter, and fry'd the collops himself,
of which he ate heartily, Col. Carlis the while being but under cook,
(and that honor enough too,) made the fire and turn'd the collops in
the pan.
When the Colonel afterwards attended his Majesty in _France_, his
Majesty calling to remembrance this passage, among others, was pleased
merrily to propose it, as a problematical question, whether himself or
the Col. were the master-cook at Boscobel; and the supremacy was of
right adjudg'd to his Majesty.
All this while the other brothers of the Penderels were in their
several stations, either scouting abroad to learn intelligence, or upon
some other service; but it so pleas'd God, that though the soldiers had
some intelligence that his Majesty had been at Whiteladies, and none
that he was gone thence, yet this house (which prov'd a happy sanctuary
for his Majesty in this sad exigent,) had not at all been searched
during his Majesties aboad there, though that had several times, this
perhaps the rather escaping, because the neighbors could truly inform
none but poor servants to be here.
His Majesty, finding himself now in a hopefull security, spent some
part of this Lords-day in a pretty arbor in Boscobel garden, which grew
upon a mount, and wherein there was a stone table and seats about it.
In this place he pass'd away some time in reading, and commended the
place for its retiredness.
His Majesty, understanding by John Penderel, that the Lord Wilmot was
at Mr. Whitgreaves, (for John knew not of his remove to Bentley,) was
desirous to let my Lord know where he was, and in what security.
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