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His pursuers found his horse yet saddled, and searched for him during four or five days in vain. May was hidden twenty-one days in a hay-mow, belonging to Bold, a husbandman, at Chessardine, during all which time a party of soldiers was quartered in the house. Boscobel, 35-37. Of the prisoners, eight suffered death, by judgment of a court-martial sitting at Chester.
Moreover he advised his majesty by no means to adventure crossing the Severn, as the strictest guard was then kept at the ferries to prevent any Royalist fugitives from escaping into Wales. The king was therefore obliged to retrace his steps, and now sought Boscobel House, not far distant from his first resting-place of Whiteladies.
"Too much of master and man about it, ain't there, Bos?" "Just that, Mr. Jerry. That ain't my idea of a free country. I can work as well as another, but I ain't going to be told that I'm a swindler because I'm making the most of my time." "He turned Nokes out by the scruff of his neck?" said Jerry. Boscobel again bobbed his head. "I didn't think Nokes was the sort of fellow to stand that."
Amongst the persons of quality who accompanied him were my Lord Duke of Buckingham, the Earls of Derby and Lauderdale, and the Lords Wilmot and Talbot. During their journey it fell from my Lord Derby's lips, that when he had been defeated at Wigan, one Pendrell, an honest labourer and a Papist, had sheltered him in Boscobel House, not far distant from where they then rode.
It was obviously unsafe, as well as ungrateful, to hang General Monk in presence of his army, many of whom had followed the "Son of the Man" from Worcester Fight in hot pursuit, and had hunted him from thicket to thicket of Boscobel Wood.
"I had handled thousands of bunches of celery in my life and never noticed how beautiful its top leaves were until he picked up a bunch once and told me all about it. Now I haven't the heart to cut the leaves off when a customer asks me." His idea of his own vegetable-gardening at Boscobel, his Peekskill home, was very amusing.
I have just spent a few days at Agworth. Doubtless he had often been at Agworth; perchance he was there, so close by, in some of the worst hours of her misery. When the ladies withdrew Mrs. Boscobel seated herself by Adela for a moment. 'So you really knew Mr. Eldon? 'Yes, but it is some time since I saw him, Adela replied simply, smiling in the joy of being so entirely mistress of herself.
Boscobel happened to approach them once whilst this reading was going on. 'You are educating her? she said to Stella afterwards. 'Perhaps a little, Stella replied absently. 'Isn't it just a trifle dangerous? suggested the understanding lady. 'Dangerous? How? 'The wife of the man who makes sparks fly out of iron? The man who is on no account to learn anything?
He visited the hospitable roof of Boscobel and the remains of the oak so conspicuous in the history of his house. He rode over the field of Edgehill, where the Cavaliers first crossed swords with the soldiers of the Parliament.
At night they descended, and going to Boscobel House, were shown a secret hiding-place, such as were then to be found in the mansions of all Catholic families, called the priests' hole a little confined closet built between two walls, in the principal stack of chimneys, and having a couple of exits for the better escape of those compelled to seek its shelter.
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