For Robert Clay. Originally printed in 1660. Whilst the rebels were plundring these noble persons, the Duke, with the Lord Leviston, Col. Blague, Mr. Marmaduke Darcy, and Mr. Hugh May, forsook the road, and betook themselves to a by-way and got into Chessardine woods, not far from New port, where they receivd some re freshment at a little obscure house, and afterwards met with two honest laborers in an adjoining wood, to whom they communicated the exigent and distresse which the fortune of war had reducd thein to, and finding them like to prove faithful, the duke thought fit to imitate his royal master, quitted his horse, delivered his George (which was given him by the Queen of England) to Mr. May ( who preserved it through all difficulties, and after restord it to his Grace in Holland ) and changd habit with one of the workmen ; and in this disguise was conveyd by one Nich. Mathews a carpenter, to the house of Mr. Hawley an hearty ca valier at Bilstrop in Nottinghamshire, from thence to the Lady Villiers house at Brooksby in Leicestershire, and, after many hardships and en counters, his Grace got secure to London, and from thence to his Majesty in France. At the same time the Lord Leviston, Col. Blague, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. May, all quitted their horses, seve rally shifted for themselves, and most of them, through various dangers and sufferings, contrivd their escapes ; In particular Mr. May lay 21. days in a hay-mow belonging to one Sold an honest husbandman, who livd neer Chessardine ; Bold having all that time rebel-souldiers quartered in his house, yet faild not to give a constant relief to his more welcom guest, and when the coast was clear of souldiers, Mr. May came to London on foot in a disguise.
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