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*ALFORD, Captain
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A Royalist of Lyme, known to Colonel Wyndham and Colonel Giles Strangways, who has influence with numerous merchant sailors. He is named by Strangways as a promising source of help in the attempt to get Charles II out of England following the Battle of Worcester. However, Colonel Wyndham has heard that Alford has been forced to leave England, a story that proves true when Wyndham goes to Lyme in search of him.
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?ANDREWS, MRS.
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The housekeeper at White-Ladies who aids Charles II early in his escape following the Battle of Worcester. She is later questioned by Roundheads, whom she berates.
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*ARGYLL, 8th Earl and 1st Marquis of Argyll (Archibald Campbell) (ca. 1605-1661)
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An unprepossessing man (being short, red-haired, and with a cast in his eye) who was hereditary chief of the Campbells, the largest and wealthiest of the Scottish clans. He was also a Scottish peer who inherited as 8th Earl of Argyll in 1638 and subscribed to the Scottish Covenant that same year. He was educated at St. Andrew’s and would become a longtime foe of the Earl of Montrose. An active Covenanter in opposition to Charles I in 1638, Argyll made peace with the king in the summer of 1641, and Charles I created him Marquis of Argyll in November of that year. Argyll switched sides again, however, something he would do repeatedly over the years. In 1643, he negotiated the solemn League and Covenant, by which Scotland allied with the Parliamentarians against the royal party. He was not a soldier by training and did not blossom into a capable general; his efforts on the field of battle during the civil wars ended in defeats at Inverlochy and Kilsyth. In October 1648, he brought Cromwell to Edinburgh and renewed the Covenant. He switched sides again in June 1650, helping to bring Charles II to Scotland and placing the crown on his head in the coronation at Scone on New Year’s Day, 1651. He later was present at the proclamation of Cromwell as Lord Protector and agreed to live peaceably under Cromwell’s government. He traveled to London in July 1660 to attempt to make peace with the newly restored Charles II, but the king was having none of that; Argyll was imprisoned, first in the Tower of London and later at Edinburgh Castle. He was tried for high treason, attainted, and executed in May 1661 in Edinburgh.
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*ARMOURER, Will[iam]
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A gentleman of Charles II’s bedchamber who was with the king at the Battle of Worcester.
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?BAGOT, Colonel
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Mentioned in passing by John Pope, who served under him during the civil wars.
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?BAGSHALL, Mr.
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A reliable Royalist who lives in Beeding, near Brighthelmstone; his house is known by Colonel George Gounter as a safe place for Charles II to stay on the final leg of the king’s flight from England following the Battle of Worcester. In the end, Lord Wilmot’s apprehensions keep the royal party from staying there.
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“BARLOW, MR.”
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Lord Wilmot’s mistress whom he mentally compares with Juliana Coningsby, deciding that the latter is not as bold and luscious.
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BEAUCHAMP
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SEE ALSO: Warwick, Earl of
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According to E. Cobham Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, in 1346 Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick defeated 100 armed men with one squire and six archers at Hogges, Normandy. An ostler in Bridport, when being questioned by a frustrated Parliamentarian captain, who hotly pursues Charles II during his flight following the Battle of Worcester, uses the phrase “bold as Beauchamp” to describe Charles II, meaning he was “bold as brass.”
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BELIAL
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Biblical name for the devil which is used when Charles II joking calls Thomas Symons a “man of Belial.”
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?BERKLEY, Sir John
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Mentioned in passing by Colonel Frank Wyndham as having escaped from Lyme before the period of the ROYAL ESCAPE.
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*BLAKE, Admiral Robert (1599-1657)
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A Parliamentarian who is mentioned in passing when a barque that Charles II was supposed to flee on following the Battle of Worcester is pressed into carrying provisions for his fleet.
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*BLAGUE, Colonel Thomas (ca. 1613-1660)
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Nickname: “Tom”
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A Suffolk man who fought at Worcester with Charles II. The king gives Blague his Knight of the Order of the Garter ribbon to carry when they flee. Blague was captured but later escaped and was able to restore the badge to the Charles.
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?BROADWAY, Captain
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Mentioned in passing as a captain of the Rump Parliament whom Humphrey Penderel encounters at Shifnal.
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?BROUGHTON, Major
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Mentioned in passing as a company commander under Colonel King at the Battle of Worcester; during his flight following the Battle of Worcester, Charles II overhears a braggart claiming to have served as one of the king’s guards while he was a member of Broughton’s company.
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?BROWN, Anthony
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Brother-in-law: Thomas Gounter
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Following the Battle of Worcester, Lord Wilmot goes to Brown’s house after becoming frightened of being recognized at the home of Lawrence Hyde (II). Brown says Wilmot “frets him more than a louse in the bosom.”
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*BUCKINGHAM, 2nd Duke of (George Villiers) (1628-1687)
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Brought up with Charles II, Buckingham served as a privy councillor to him in exile. Although described in ROYAL ESCAPE as being 24 years old, he was actually 23 at the time the Battle of Worcester took place. After the battle, he escaped separately from the king. Portrayed in the book as having “gifts of beauty, grace and wit” and being sometimes sulky and obstinate, he later was a patron of science and literature.
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?BUTLER, Mr.
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A squire and the justice of the peace located nearest to Charmouth who is informed by Mr. Hammet and Mr. Westley of Charles II’s reputed presence in Charmouth following the Battle of Worcester. Although Butler is a Parliamentarian and in no sense a king’s man, he has little love of Puritans and absolutely no wish to have a hand in bringing Charles II to the executioner’s block. He, therefore, refuses to issue a warrant to raise the country and apprehend the “traitor” based on no better evidence than Hammet’s second-hand story.
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CARELESS, Major
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SEE: Carlis, Major
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*CARLIS, Major
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AKA “Carlos” (While the major is never called “Carlos” during the course of ROYAL ESCAPE, Charles II vows, once he comes into his own, to change the major’s surname from “Carlis” to “Carlos” (meaning “Charles”) as a sign of royal favor and friendship.
AKA Major Careless in some histories of the period.
An unmarried man from Bromhall, in Staffordshire, who is originally presumed dead at the Battle of Worcester. He is later reunited with Charles II at Boscobel House, where they hide in the oak tree.
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CARLOS
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SEE: Carlis, Major
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*CHICHESTER, Lord Bishop of
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SEE: Duppa, Brian SEE: King, Henry
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Charles II mentions in passing that the Bishop of Chichester had been his tutor. The man mentioned may be either Brian Duppa and Henry King, who both served as Bishop of Chichester during the king’s youth.
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*CLARENDON, Earl of
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SEE: Hyde, Sir Edward
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*CLEVELAND, Lord (Thomas Wentworth, 4th Lord Wentworth and 1st Earl of Cleveland) (1591-1667)
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Thomas inherited the barony of Wentworth in 1593, the year he turned 2 years old. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, at age 11 and was admitted at Gray’s Inn by 1620. He was made a Knight of the Bath in June 1610 when Prince Henry (eldest son of James I) was invested Prince of Wales. He was created Earl of Cleveland in 1626, three days after the coronation of Charles I, and was a firm Royalist throughout the Civil War. He was a distinguished cavalry commander for Charles I in the campaigns of 1644, though, when his horse fell, he was captured by Parliamentarians at the 2nd Battle of Newbury in October 1644. He was a prisoner in the Tower of London until the end of 1648, after which he escaped overseas. He joined the court of the exiled Charles II by the middle of 1649, accompanying him to Scotland in 1650 and participating in the invasion of England the next year. He fought gallantly at the Battle of Worcester and his rear-guard action was part of what allowed Charles II to escape from the city after the Royalist army was defeated. He escaped after the battle but was soon captured in Shropshire and again confined in the Tower of London, this time until 1658. He is described in ROYAL ESCAPE as “old Lord Cleveland,” being then about 60 years old.
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?CLIMPSON, John
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Mentioned in passing, Climpson was the second Royalist sympathizer to whose dwelling the fastidious Lord Wilmot is led by John Penderel, after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester. Wilmot refuses to hide in Climpson’s home, professing not to find it suitable to his needs.
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*CONINGSBY, Juliana
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AKA Judith Coningsby in some histories of the period.
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Aunt: Lady Wyndham
Cousin: Colonel Frank Wyndham
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A young woman living with the Wyndhams at Trent, in Somerset, as Lady Wyndham’s companion. She takes Jane Lane’s place as a young woman who is served by the disguised “servant” Charles II during a journey, while he attempts to find passage to France after the Battle of Worcester.
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*COVENTRY, The Honorable John (ca. 1610-?)
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Father: Lord Coventry
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The eldest of four sons of the 1st Lord Coventry by a second wife, John Coventry is a Royalist sympathizer who lives in the cathedral close at Salisbury. He is approached to help Charles II’s escape from England at the suggestion of Frank Wyndham
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*COVENTRY, Lord [Thomas Coventry, 1st Lord Coventry] (1578-1640)
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Son: The Honorable John Coventry
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Thomas Coventry matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1592, at age 14, and entered the Inner Temple in 1594. He became a barrister in 1603 and was the king’s solicitor-general from 1617 to 1621 and attorney-general from 1621 to 1625. He was knighted and served as MP for Droitwich 1620-1621. He was raised to the English peerage in 1628 as Baron Coventry and was lord keeper of the great seal from 1625 to his death 15 years later. He had been dead for more than a decade by the time the events in ROYAL ESCAPE take place (and was succeeded in the barony by his son and heir by his first wife), but is mentioned in passing as the father of the Honorable John Coventry, the eldest son of his second marriage.
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*CROMWELL, Oliver (1599-1658)
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AKA “Noll” to the Royalists
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The son of a country gentleman, Cromwell was educated at Huntingdon Grammar School, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and for a time at the Inns of Court. He served as an MP for Huntingdon in 1628 and was elected MP for Cambridge in both the Short and the Long Parliaments of 1640. Though not trained as a soldier, he joined the Parliamentarians in the civil war and quickly developed into an able general and a superb cavalry commander. He created his own regiment, which later was called the Ironsides. He was commissioned a lieutenant-general early in 1644 and the next year was appointed lieutenant-general of the New Model Army. He played a major role in the Parliamentary victories at Marston Moor, Naseby, and Preston. He became Lord Protector in 1653, serving till his death five years later.
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*DALYELL, General Tam (1615-1685)
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Led a brigade of Scots infantry at the Battle of Worcester, where he was captured. He subsequently escaped from the Tower of London, one of the few prisoners to do that. After the Restoration, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the king’s forces in Scotland and was made a Privy Councillor.
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*DARCY, MARMADUKE
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AKA “Duke” to Charles II.
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One of Charles II’s supporters at the Battle of Worcester, during which he brings the king a horse.
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DAVID
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Thomas Symons uses the term “drunk as David’s sow” to describe Charles II. This term comes from a story about a Welshman named David Lloyd who had a six-legged sow that he showed for money. Once his wife fell into the pig’s sty after drinking and fell asleep. When a group of travelers stopped by to see the sow, David took them out to the sty and said, 'There's the sow for you! Did you ever see the like?,' to which one of them replied, 'Well, it is the drunkest sow I've ever seen.' After that his wife was known as David's sow.
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?DAW, Henry
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One of the men of Lyme who discuss the bounty offered for the capture of Charles II following the Battle of Worcester.
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?DAY, John
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A former servant of Colonel George Gounter who goes with the colonel to Emsworth and Langstone, looking for safe passage for Charles II following the Battle of Worcester.
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*DERBY, Lord (James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby) (1607-1651)
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James Stanley was elected an MP for Liverpool in 1625, was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I, and was summoned to the House of Lords in 1628 in what was erroneously believed to be his father’s barony of Strange. He served with his father as joint lord lieutenant of Lancaster and Chester and succeeded his father as 7th Earl of Derby in 1642, after which he continued as sole lord lieutenant of Lancaster and Chester until 1647. A staunch Royalist, Derby was severely wounded in a fight in Wigan Lane on August 26, 1651, but eight days later was present at the Battle of Worcester. He was taken prisoner after the battle, tried for treason by a court martial of the Parliamentary army, and beheaded at Bolton, in Lancaster, on October 15, 1651. His last words on the scaffold are quoted as: “I die for God, the King, and the Laws, and this makes me not be ashamed of my life, nor afraid of my death.”
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*DOUGLAS
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A Scottish soldier mentioned in passing as having fallen at the Battle of Worcester. May be the same as James Douglas.
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?DOUGLAS, James
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One of the Scottish troopers at the Battle of Worcester. May be the same as the man known only as Douglas.
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“DUKE”
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SEE: Marmaduke Darcy
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*DUPPA, Brian
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Bishop of Chichester (June 1638 to December 1641) who may have been tutor to Charles II. In history, the king knelt at Duppa’s deathbed to implore a blessing.
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ELISHA
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A Hebrew prophet mentioned in passing in a speech Colonel Gounter makes to gently admonish Charles II: “Though you may be like Elisha’s servant, that saw an heavenly host about him to guard him, to us it is invisible.”
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*ELLESDON, Captain William
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Brother: John Ellesdon
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A Royalist soldier during the civil war who in private life was a merchant of Lyme. Ellesdon, though married to a strict Puritan, is willing to help when approached to find safe passage for Charles II following the Battle of Worcester. He and Frank Wyndham convince Stephen Limbry, who already planned to sail his barque to St. Malo, to take two additional passengers – Lord Wilmot and Charles II.
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?ELLESDON, John
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Brother: Captain William Ellesdon
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Mentioned in passing as having earlier arranged for Sir John Berkley’s escape from Lyme.
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?FISHER, Sir Clement
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Following the Battle of Worcester, Colonel Lane and Lord Wilmot stay at Fisher’s house in Packington, while the king stays at Long Marston with Mr. John Tomes.
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?FORBES
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A Royalist mentioned in passing as having fallen at the Battle of Worcester.
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?FRASER, Ned
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One of the Scottish troopers at the Battle of Worcester.
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*FLEETWOOD, General Charles (1618?–1692)
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Parliamentary general who was at the Battle of Worcester.
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?GERRARD, Thomas
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Mentioned in passing as the former owner of the estate of Trent, in Somerset. The estate was inherited by his daughter Anne, who married Colonel Frank Wyndham, a Royalist who lives on the estate during the events of ROYAL ESCAPE.
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? GERRARD, Anne
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SEE: Mrs. Frank Wyndham
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?GIFFARD, Capt.
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Mentioned in passing by Lord Wilmot as the leader of the troop in which Thomas Whitgreave served.
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*GIFFARD, Charles
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A Royalist who was at the Battle of Worcester, he was also the owner of Boscobel, the hunting lodge where Charles II spends time in the oak tree during his flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*GIFFARD, George
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Kinsman: Charles Giffard
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Resident of White-Ladies where Charles II spends the first night of his flight following the Battle of Worcester. Giffard is later roughed up by Roundheads who have been told that the king was there.
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*GORGES, Dr.
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Kinswoman: Eleanor Norton
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A former chaplain of Charles II, whom the king describes as a fool and a blabber. Dr. Gorges no longer dares admit to being a cleric so he has been studying physic. He is a guest at the Nortons’ home when Charles II stays there in disguise following the Battle of Worcester. The doctor doesn’t recognize the king, although he attends Charles for a supposed illness.
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*GOUNTER, Colonel George
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Wife: Mrs. George Gounter
Sister: Mrs. Thomas Symons
Cousin: Captain Thomas Gounter
Brother-in-law: Sir Frederick Hyde
Brother-in-law: Lawrence Hyde (II)
Brother-in-law: Nicholas Hyde
Brother-in-law: Thomas Symons
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Lawrence Hyde (II)
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A Royalist who recognizes Lord Wilmot immediately when he is introduced as “Mr. Barlow” at Gounter’s home. Gounter inspires Wilmot with confidence and spends several days finding safe passage for Charles II following the Battle of Worcester
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*GOUNTER, Mrs. George
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Spouse: George Gounter
Father: Lawrence Hyde (I)
Brother: Sir Frederick Hyde
Brother: Lawrence Hyde (II)
Brother: Nicholas Hyde
Nephew: Lawrence Hyde (III)
Cousin: Sir Edward Hyde
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Lawrence Hyde (II)
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Doesn’t want her husband to become involved with Lord Wilmot, while he is fleeing following the Battle of Worcester, since Gounter has only recently won his parole from the Parliamentarian government.
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*GOUNTER, Captain Thomas
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Familial nickname: “Tom”
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Brother-in-law: Anthony Brown
Cousin: Colonel George Gounter
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Although once under Lord Wilmot’s command, Gounter does not recognize Wilmot when he comes to him for help in contacting his cousin George Gounter. Thomas joins the search for a boat for Charles II to escape in after the Battle of Worcester when he learns what is happening.
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*GOUNTER, Ursula
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SEE: Symons, Mrs. Thomas
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?HALSENOTH, Joan
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Lady Wyndham’s Catholic maid who serves the king dinner when he stays at the Wyndham home following the Battle of Worcester.
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?HAMILTON, Sir William
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Mentioned in passing as a Royalist commander who, along with Lord Rothes, held Castle Hill, outside Worcester.
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*HAMILTON, 2nd Duke and 4th Marquess of (William Hamilton) (1616-1651)
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William Hamilton was a member of a family that had held peerage rank in Scotland since the 15th century. The second son of the 2nd Marquess of Hamilton, William was educated at the University of Glasgow and became a Scottish peer in his own right in March 1639, being created Earl of Lanark. Ten years later he inherited the dukedom and marquessate from his older brother, under a special remainder. He inherited English peerages at the same time, becoming 3rd Earl of Cambridge. He was MP for Portsmouth in the Short Parliament of 1640, was a member of the Privy Councils both in England and Scotland, and twice served as Secretary of State in Scotland during the decade of the civil war. A Covenanter in 1644, he joined the Royalist cause and, in 1648, commanded the royal army in Scotland. He accompanied Charles II to Scotland in 1650 and was a lieutenant-general in his service, participating in the invasion of England the next year. He was mortally wounded while leading his troops at the Battle of Worcester and died nine days later. He is mentioned in passing several times in ROYAL ESCAPE by Charles II, with respect and praise.
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?HAMMET
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The blacksmith in Charmouth who tries to inform on Charles II during his flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*HARVEY, Dr. William (1578-1657)
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Harvey, the son of a well-to-do merchant, was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and then studied anatomy and medicine in Padua. He returned to England in 1602 and set up medical practice in London. In 1618, he became physician extraordinary to James I. While serving as the royal court physician, Harvey became famous for first demonstrating the complete circulation of blood (a theory he articulated in lectures as early as 1618 and published in book form in 1628). He is mentioned in passing by Charles II as his old instructor in physics and as the person who took him and his brother James to observe the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, when they were boys.
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?HAYNES, Colonel
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Mentioned in passing as commander of the regiment quartered at Bridport. Some of his soldiers exchange railleries with Charles II in his guise as the serving-man William Jackson, when the king arrives there with Colonel Wyndham and Juliana Coningsby. A soldier of Haynes’ regiment tells Charles II that the regiment is headed for Jersey “for to subdue the Malignants there.”
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*HENCHMAN, Dr. [Humfrey] (?-1675)
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A Prebend of Salisbury Cathedral and supporter of Charles II who aided in his escape after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester. Henchman is described as an old man in ROYAL ESCAPE. The historical Dr. Henchman later became a bishop, first of Salisbury (consecrated in 1660) and then of London (consecrated in 1663).
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?HENSLOW, Mr.
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A resident of Burchant mentioned in passing as having been brought by Lord Wilmot into the plans for Charles II’s escape following the Battle of Worcester. He, in turn, brings the Earl of Southampton into the affair.
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*HERTFORD, 2nd Marquis of (William Seymour) (1588-1660)
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Hertford was a member of the Seymour family, whose dukedom of Somerset had fallen under an attainder in 1552. He inherited as 2nd Earl of Hertford from his grandfather, the 1st Earl, who died at age 83 in 1621. Hertford was created Marquis of Hertford in 1641 and, in September 1660, he was restored to his great-grandfather’s dukedom. Hertford does not appear in ROYAL ESCAPE as a character but is referred to indirectly because his steward, Edward Kirton, is known to Lord Wilmot and is one of the Royalists who shelter the fugitive Charles II after the Royalist defeat at Worcester.
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?HEWETT
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The landlord of the King’s Head, a known sanctuary for Royalists in Salisbury. Hewett hides Lord Wilmot during his flight from England after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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*HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679)
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Hobbes, a famous English philosopher and author of The Leviathan, was the son of a parson and nephew of a prosperous glover. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and, in 1608, became tutor to William Cavendish, later Earl of Devonshire. He retained an association with the Cavendish family for more than three decades, taking more than one of the boys on the grand tour. He left England for Paris in 1640 and stayed there until 1652. While in France, he was for a time tutor to the future Charles II. He is mentioned in passing by the king as having taught him mathematics.
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*HOLLAND, Lord (Henry Rich, 1st Earl Holland) (1590-1649)
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Henry Rich was the second son of Robert, 1st Earl of Warwick. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Apparently quite a handsome man, he caught the eye of James I and profited by his sovereign’s admiration. He was made a Knight of the Bath in 1610 when Prince Henry Stuart (eldest son of James I) was created Prince of Wales. Rich was twice elected MP for Leicester and served as ambassador to Paris. He was given a barony in 1622 as Lord Kensington and was promoted to Earl Holland in 1624. The next year he was installed as a Knight of the Garter. Despite frequent shows of royal favor and support, Rich vacillated between king and Parliament during the 1640s. Parliament made him Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex and Berkshire in 1642, and he was one of four earls who went to negotiate with Charles I at Oxford. However, in 1648 he joined the rising for the king and was subsequently taken prisoner, tried, and sentenced to death. A motion for his reprieve in the House of Lords lost by one vote, and he was executed as a traitor in 1649, a few weeks after Charles I. He thus was dead at the time of ROYAL ESCAPE but is mentioned in passing by Charles II as having broken an altar, crucifix, and candlesticks that Charles once had owned; the king then remarks “Which, however, he has now paid for.”
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?HORNYHOLD
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A Royalist at the Battle of Worcester.
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?HORTON
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The ostler at the George Inn in Bridport who nearly recognizes Charles II during his flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*HUDDLESTON, Father John (1608-ca.1698)
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Father Huddleston, a Catholic priest in disguise, is a slightly built, hatchet-faced, grey-haired man, who serves as tutor in the house of Thomas Whitgreave, a Catholic gentleman and Royalist sympathizer. Father Huddleston arranges to conceal Lord Wilmot at the Whitgreave home after the Royalist defeat at Worcester. Above 40 at the time of the events in ROYAL ESCAPE, Father Huddleston aids in the escape of Lord Wilmot and Charles II. The historical Father Huddleston survived to convert Charles II to Catholicism on his death bed in 1685 and administered last rites to the king.
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*HUDDLESTON, Richard
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Mentioned in passing as a relative of Father Huddleston and the author of A Short and Plain Way to the Faith and Church.
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?HUNTBACH, Mr.
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A gentleman of firm Royalist loyalties, living at Brinsford, to whose house John Penderel leads Lord Wilmot when fleeing the Royalist defeat at Worcester (after that fastidious peer has refused in succession to lodge with three other Royalists because their homes are insufficiently comfortable). Lord Wilmot almost doesn’t reach Brinsford, being frightened by news of Parliamentarian troops lodged in the area, and is never easy during his brief stay with Mr. Huntbach.
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HYDE, Sir Edward (later 1st Lord Hyde and 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674)
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Father: Lawrence Hyde (I)
Cousin: Nicholas Hyde
Cousin: Mrs. George Gounter
Cousin: Lawrence Hyde (II)
Cousin: Sir Frederick Hyde
Cousin: Lawrence Hyde (III)
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Edward Hyde was educated at Magdalene Hall, Oxford, and became a barrister of the Middle Temple. He served as MP for Wootton Basset in the Short Parliament (April 13 to May 5, 1640) and for Saltash in the Long Parliament (beginning November 1640), and was effectively the Royalist leader in the Commons before the civil war. He joined Charles I in 1642 and as a member of the privy council was the king’s civilian advisor during the war; he also was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by Charles I. Hyde joined the exiled court of Prince Charles in the autumn of 1648. Charles II appointed him Secretary of State (1653-1657) and Lord Chancellor in 1657. He served him as joint ambassador to Madrid in 1649-1651. Hyde was suspicious of the Duke of Argyll and was the sole advisor to warn the young Charles II against trusting him. Following the death of Cromwell, Hyde was one of the principal architects of the restoration of Charles II as a constitutional monarch. In 1660, Hyde’s daughter Anne married James Stuart, Duke of York (younger son of Charles I, who succeeded to the throne in 1685 as James II). Hyde was knighted in 1643 and is referred to throughout ROYAL ESCAPE as “Hyde” or “Sir Edward Hyde,” being then a commoner. He later was raised to the peerage, being created Lord Hyde (November 1660), and Viscount Cornbury, and Earl of Clarendon (April 1661).
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*HYDE, Sir Frederick
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Father: Lawrence Hyde (I)
Brother: Lawrence Hyde (II)
Brother: Nicholas Hyde
Sister: Mrs. George Gounter
Nephew: Lawrence Hyde (III)
Cousin: Sir Edward Hyde
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A guest at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lawrence Hyde (II), when Charles II, fleeing after the Battle of Worcester, arrives in disguise. Noticing that the king is served two larks to his one and that the king’s appearance and behavior are contradictory, Hyde warns his sister-in-law to be careful who she admits to her house.
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HYDE, Kate
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SEE: Gounter, Mrs. George
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?HYDE, Lawrence (I)
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Son: Sir Frederick Hyde
Son: Lawrence Hyde (II)
Son: Nicholas Hyde
Daughter: Mrs. George Gounter
Nephew: Sir Edward Hyde
Grandson: Lawrence Hyde (III)
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Although deceased when the actions in ROYAL ESCAPE take place, he is mentioned in passing as the father of Nicholas Hyde.
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*HYDE, Lawrence (II) (1594-1643)
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Father: Lawrence Hyde (I)
Spouse: Mrs. Lawrence Hyde (II)
Father: Lawrence Hyde (I)
Brother: Sir Frederick Hyde
Brother: Nicholas Hyde
Sister: Mrs. George Gounter
Cousin: Sir Edward Hyde
Nephew: Lawrence Hyde (III)
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Mentioned in passing as the late husband of Mrs. Lawrence Hyde of Heale and brother to Mrs. George Gounter.
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*HYDE, Mrs. Lawrence (II)
(nee Amphillis Tichborne)
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Spouse: Lawrence Hyde
Sister: Mary Tichborne
Brother-in-law: Sir Frederick Hyde
Brother-in-law: Nicholas Hyde
Sister-in-law: Mrs. George Gounter
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A widow who recognizes Charles II when she shelters him at her home (at Heale, a few miles north of Salisbury). She tells him he has a “Kingdom in the hearts of your loyal subjects….”
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?HYDE, Lawrence (III)
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Father: Nicholas Hyde
Uncle: Sir Frederick Hyde
Uncle: Lawrence Hyde (II)
Aunt: Mrs. George Gounter
Cousin: Sir Edward Hyde
Grandfather: Lawrence Hyde (I)
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Recruited by Lord Wilmot, who stays at his house in Hinton Daubnay, to aid in Charles II’s escape from England after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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*HYDE, Nicholas
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Father: Lawrence Hyde (I)
Son: Lawrence Hyde (III)
Brother: Sir Frederick Hyde
Brother: Lawrence Hyde (II)
Sister: Mrs. George Gounter
Cousin: Sir Edward Hyde
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A Chief Justice of the King’s Bench who is mentioned in passing as the father of Lawrence Hyde (III) and the son of Lawrence Hyde (I).
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*JACKSON, William
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AKA “Will”
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A tenant of the father of Colonel Lane whose identity Charles II uses during his escape following the Battle of Worcester.
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JACKSON, William
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SEE: Charles II
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?JERMYN, Sir Thomas
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Mentioned in passing as a one-time gentleman of Charles II’s Bedchamber, when the then-Prince of Wales was living at Richmond. Jermyn’s falconer, a man named Pope, later becomes butler to the Norton family at Abbotsleigh and recognizes Charles II when the king arrives there, disguised as a serving-man, after the Battle of Worcester.
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?Joan
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A servant to John Tomes at Long Marston who is held by Mr. Tomes’ cook-maid to be a malingerer because she always contrives to fall ill when company calls. When the disguised Charles II stops at Long Marston after the Battle of Worcester, Joan’s “illness” causes the king to be enlisted by the cook-maid to wind up a jack in the kitchen, a task he does not know how to do.
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?JONES, Davy
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A resident of Heath who is mentioned in passing as having sheltered Major Carlis for two days after the Battle of Worcester.
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?JONES, Rhys
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Spouse: Mrs. Rhys Jones
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The landlord of the George Inn in Broad Windsor who shelters Charles II and company during their flight after the Battle of Worcester.
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?JONES, Mrs. Rhys
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(nee Nan --?--)
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A former lover of Colonel Bullen Reymes, whom Lord Wilmot impersonates during part of the flight following the Battle of Worcester. The lures she throws out to Wilmot, when he stays at her husband’s inn, are the source of some amusement to Charles II.
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“JONES, Will”
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Will Jones is the name used by Charles II while he is disguised as a poor wood-cutter early in his flight following the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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?KING, Colonel
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Mentioned in passing as commander of the king’s regiment at the Battle of Worcester.
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“KING CHARLES THE MARTYR”
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*KING, Henry (1592-1669)
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English poet and Bishop of Chichester from 1642 to 1669 who may have served as tutor to Charles II.
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?KIRTON, Edward
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Steward to the Marquis of Hertford and an old acquaintance of Lord Wilmot. Kirton is enlisted to shelter Charles II at his residence in Castle Cary manor house during the king’s flight after the Battle of Worcester.
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“La Grande Mademoiselle”
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SEE: MONTPENSIER, Duchess de
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*LANE, Mr.
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Wife: Mrs. Lane
Son: Colonel John Lane
Daughter: Jane Lane
Daughter: Mrs. John Petre
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Jane Lane pretends that her father has had a seizure so that she, Henry Lassels, and Charles II can leave the Nortons’ house without suspicion, when they stay there during the king’s flight after the Battle of Worcester.
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*LANE, Mrs.
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Husband: Mr. Lane
Son: Colonel John Lane
Daughter: Jane Lane
Daughter: Mrs. John Petre
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She appears briefly as the disguised Charles II prepares to leave with her daughters for the Norton’s house in Abbotsleigh and laughs when he awkwardly assists Jane Lane in mounting her horse.
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*LANE, Jane
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AKA “My Life,” “Mistress Disdain” by Charles II
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Father: Mr. Lane
Mother: Mrs. Lane
Brother: Colonel John Lane
Sister: Mrs. John Petre
Cousin: Henry Lassels
Kinsman: John Tomes
Kinswoman: Mrs. George Norton
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A young woman who travels with Charles II through an early segment of his escape and falls in love with him, even though she knows he “is something free with women.” In turn, he prefers her to Julia Coningsby, his later traveling companion, whom he finds more sexually attractive but less so intellectually. Jane eventually fled from England to Holland, where she became a lady-in-waiting to Charles’ sister Mary, widow of William II Prince of Orange.
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*LANE, Colonel John
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Father: Mr. Lane
Mother: Mrs. Lane
Sister: Jane Lane
Sister: Mrs. John Petre
Cousin: Henry Lassels
Kinsman: John Tomes
Kinswoman: Mrs. George Norton
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He and Lord Wilmot devise a plan to have Charles II, disguised as Lane’s tenant William Jackson, travel with his sister Jane and Henry Lassels through an early segment of his escape following the Battle of Worcester.
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?LANE, Cornet Richard
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AKA: Mr. Lane, Cornet Lane
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One of Talbot’s levies who carries messages after the Battle of Worcester. He is later caught by the Roundheads, forced to tell them that Charles II has been at White-Ladies, and then beaten when Charles isn’t found.
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LANE, Withy
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SEE: Petre, Mrs. John
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?LASSELS, Cornet Henry
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Nickname: “Harry”
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Cousin: Colonel John Lane
Cousin: Jane Lane
Cousin: Mrs. John Petre
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Lassels served as cornet to his kinsman, Colonel Lane, during the civil wars. He accompanies Jane Lane, the Petres, and Charles II to the Nortons’ house, near Bristol, during Charles’ flight from England after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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*LAUDERDALE, 2nd Earl of, later 1st Duke of (John Maitland) (1616-1682)
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Described in ROYAL ESCAPE as a red-haired man with a strong Scottish accent, Lauderdale was a Scottish politician, who inherited the earldom of Lauderdale from his father in 1645. He had been a fervent Covenanter before deciding to support the Royalists but converted to the Royalist cause by the late 1640s. He supported the Engagers who tried to rescue Charles I in 1648, and, in 1650, he was one of the Scottish peers who persuaded Charles II to accept the Covenant, which paved the way for Charles II to be crowned King of Scotland in 1651. Lauderdale was taken prisoner by the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Worcester and was imprisoned for the next nine years. Appointed secretary of state and high commissioner of Scotland after the Restoration, he was made Duke of Lauderdale by Charles II in 1672. He is mentioned in passing several times in ROYAL ESCAPE and Charles II praises his conduct at Worcester.
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*LESLIE, General David (later Lord Newark in the Scottish peerage) (? - 1682)
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Though not originally a peer, David Leslie descended from Scottish peers; he was a younger son of Patrick, 1st Lord Lindores, and his two grandfathers were the 5th Earl of Rothes and the 1st Earl of Orkney. He became a soldier in the Swedish army where he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and also was in the service of the Landgravine of Hesse. When he returned to Scotland, it was to join the Covenanters who opposed Charles I. As a Major General of Horse, he helped defeat the Royalist army at Marston Moor in 1644, and the next year he became a lieutenant general, commanding the army that captured Carlisle and then surprised and defeated the remains of Lord Montrose’s army at Philiphaugh. Though Leslie declined to join the Engagers in 1648 (the Scottish forces who attempted to rescue Charles I), he became disaffected after the execution of Charles I. When Charles II was crowned King of Scotland, Leslie supported him. He had command of the Covenanting armies that lost to Cromwell at the Battle of Dunbar in September 1650 and a year later at the Battle of Worcester. Leslie appears only briefly as a character in ROYAL ESCAPE but is mentioned several times -- always unfavorably. He was distinguished at the battle for being unable to get his Scottish troops to fight effectively. In history, General Leslie escaped immediately after the Battle of Worcester but was captured in Yorkshire and imprisoned for the next nine years. Whether because of his long incarceration or because Charles II’s temper had cooled, Leslie did not remain in bad odor as the general who lost at Worcester. Soon after the Restoration, he was rewarded for his services to the crown, being created Lord Newark in the Scottish peerage and receiving a pension.
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?LIMBRY, Stephen
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A tenant of William Ellesdon and the master of a barque (sailing vessel), Limbry already has engaged to sail his ship from Lyme to St. Malo before Colonel Wyndham arrives at Lyme, seeking a means by which the fugitive Charles II can leave England following the Battle of Worcester. For a payment of 60 pounds, Limbry agrees to embark with two passengers, men who “had a finger in the pie at Worcester” (men who, in fact, are Lord Wilmot and Charles II, though their identities are not revealed to Limbry). Limbry, however, is hindered by his wife, who suspects her husband of engaging on some secret business. Upon his confession that she is correct, she is so fearful for his life that she, in concert with her daughters, contrives to lock him in his own bedchamber, thus preventing him from making the promised rendezvous with the king.
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?LITTLETON, Captain
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A neighbor of Colonel Wyndham who willingly, though unsuccessfully, tries to find transport for Charles II from seaports in Hampshire, after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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?MACEY, Captain
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In charge of Parliamentary troops quartered at Lyme, Macey sets off after Charles II, after being informed that he is in the area during the king’s flight after the Battle of Worcester.
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*MANSEL, Francis
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A Royalist merchant of Chichester who, having considerable traffic with France, helps find a ship on which Charles II can escape after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester. For 50 pounds, he engages to arrange passage for two “duelists” who must fly from England, though he carefully does not ask their names.
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?MARTIN, Bartholomew
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A young servant in George Giffard’s house who is sent to Boscobel to get William Penderel so that he can assist with Charles II’s flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*MASSEY, Major
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One of Charles II’s supporters who led charges at Sidbury Gate during the Battle of Worcester.
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*MASSEY, Major-General Edward
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A Scottish supporter of Charles II who was sent south from Carlisle into England, ahead of the Royalist army, in order to recruit English forces to the king’s banner before the Battle of Worcester. He was largely unsuccessful in this attempt, however, because he alienated the English with his “stern Presbyterianism.”
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*MAY, Hugh
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A gentleman of Charles II’s bedchamber who was with him at the Battle of Worcester.
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*MIDDLETON, 1st Earl of
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*MIDDLETON, Major-General John (later Earl of Middleton) (ca. 1608 - 1673)
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A tall, raven-haired man, John Middleton was a life-long soldier and was with the Scottish army when it fought in France. Originally a Covenanter, he joined the Parliamentary forces in 1642 and was a lieutenant-general by 1644. The next year he became a Major-General of Horse in the Scottish army and was second in command to Lieutenant-General David Leslie when the remnants of Montrose’s Royalist army were beaten at Philiphaugh. After the surrender of Charles I, however, Middleton joined the Scottish party that invaded England in the attempt to rescue the king, and he was captured at the Battle of Preston in 1648. He was a Royalist major-general at the Battle of Worcester, though the king blamed him and David Leslie for want of courage in not ordering a Scots cavalry charge to support the Royalist infantry at a crucial point in the fight. He is mentioned in passing in this regard, unfavorably, by Charles II in ROYAL ESCAPE. Middleton was wounded and captured at Worcester, but, a few months later, he escaped from the Tower of London, by disguising himself in his wife’s clothes, and made his way to France. He returned to the Scottish highlands and there commanded a force of some 4,000 Royalists. After being defeated by General Monck in 1654, he returned to the continent and joined Charles II at Cologne. Middleton’s later exertions on behalf of Charles II evidently overcame the king’s earlier disgust of him because Charles created him Earl of Middleton in the Scottish peerage by patent in October 1660, confirming an earlier grant of the same title in September 1656, made while the king was still in exile. In 1660, Middleton became Commander-in-Chief in Scotland and Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament. The next year he was sworn in as a member of the privy council for Scotland and became an extraordinary lord of session (judge), though he was dismissed from office in 1663.
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*MONTPENSIER, Duchess de, (Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans) (1627-1693)
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AKA “La Grande Mademoiselle”
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Brother: Louis XIV of France
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Charles II describes her as having teeth that stick out and tells Jane Lane that the duchess thinks he is a bore.
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*MONTROSE, 5th Earl and 1st Marquis of (James Graham) (1612-1650)
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Montrose, who inherited his Scottish earldom at age 14, was educated at St. Andrews and spent three years doing a grand tour in France and Italy. He was a highly capable Royalist general during the civil war, joining the king in 1643 and being made a lieutenant-general. In the space of 12 months in 1644 and 1645, he won six pitched battles in Scotland against the Covenant forces allied with Parliament against the king. He was created Marquis of Montrose by Charles I in May 1644. He finally was defeated at Philiphaugh in September 1645, when his skeleton army was surprised by a greatly superior force. In 1646, he fled to the continent, where he was feted as a hero, but he was a committed Royalist and, in the spring of 1650, he landed in Scotland to attempt to raise the Scots for Charles II. His small army was defeated, and, although he escaped, he was betrayed into his enemy’s hands and executed at Edinburgh in May 1650. He thus was dead before the events described in ROYAL ESCAPE, but in one scene Heyer has Charles II meditating guiltily about how he -- young and inexperienced though he was – had treated this most loyal and competent of generals. The scene ends with Charles vowing to have Argyll’s head in exchange for Montrose’s, should he ever secure the throne of England.
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?MORLEY, Captain
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Governor of Arundel Castle and a rabid schismatic who nearly comes upon Charles II near the end of his escape following the Battle of Worcester.
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“Morton, Mr.”
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SEE: Wilmot, Lord
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*NEWARK, Lord
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SEE: LESLIE, General David
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*NEWCASTLE, 1st Marquess of, later 1st Duke of (William Cavendish) (ca. 1593-1676)
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William was the only surviving son of a knight by the daughter and heiress of a baron; he also was nephew of the 1st Earl of Devonshire. The heir to a fortune, he was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and became a Knight of the Bath in 1610, when Prince Henry (eldest son of James I) was invested as Prince of Wales. He was elected to a term in the House of Commons in 1614, as MP for East Retford. He was raised to the peerage in 1620 as Viscount Mansfield and was promoted to Earl of Newcastle in 1628 and to Marquis of Newcastle in 1643. He was lord lieutenant of Nottinghamshire from 1626 to 1642, and of Derbyshire from 1628 to 1638, joined the privy council in 1639. In the 1640s, he raised and maintained Royalist armies in the north at his own expense and won the battles of Piercebridge in 1642 and Adwalton Moor in Yorkshire in 1643. He was not a disciplined campaigner, however; while brave in combat, he tended to return to the pleasures of the flesh immediately after battle had ended. His army was shattered at Marston Moor in July 1644, and he left England for the continent, where he stayed until the Restoration in 1660. He joined Charles II’s privy-council-in-exile in 1650 but took little part in politics. He had a great passion for horsemanship, operating a riding-school at Antwerp, and wrote two books on dressage (the first published in 1657). Described by Charles II in ROYAL ESCAPE as his “governor,” (Newcastle had been so appointed in 1638, the year Charles turned 8), he was in charge of the education of the then prince, including horsemanship. Charles quotes several of his maxims to Lady Wyndham, in particular one to the effect that it is not possible to be too civil to women. In history, Lord Newcastle recovered most of his estates at the Restoration and was created Duke of Newcastle in 1665.
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*“NOLL”
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*NORTON, George
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Spouse: Mrs. George Norton
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His home at Abbotsleigh, near Bristol, is a key destination for Charles II, Jane Lane, and Henry Lassels during Charles’ flight from England after the Battle of Worcester.
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*NORTON, Mrs. George (nee Eleanor ---?---)
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Familial nickname: “Nell”
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Spouse: George Norton
Kinswoman: Jane Lane
Kinsman: Colonel John Lane
Kinsman: Dr. Gorges
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A friend and kinswoman of Jane Lane, whose home at Abbotsleigh, near Bristol, is a key destination of Charles II, Jane Lane, and Henry Lassels during Charles’ flight after the Battle of Worcester. During the time they stay there, Mrs. Norton, who was heavily pregnant upon their arrival, miscarries and becomes very ill.
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*ORANGE, William II Prince of (1626-1650)
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Father-in-law: Charles I of England
Mother-in-law: Henrietta Maria of France
Brother-in-law: Charles II of England
Brother-in-law: James II of England
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Husband of the eldest daughter of Charles I and a financial supporter of Charles II, whom the king mourns during his escape following the Battle of Worcester.
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“PAYNE, MR.”
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SEE: Wilmot, Lord
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*PENDEREL, Dame
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Son: George Penderel
Son: Humphrey Penderel
Son: John Penderel
Son: Richard Penderel
Son: William Penderel
Daughter: Mrs. Francis Yates
Granddaughter: Nan Penderell
Daughter-in-law: Mrs. Richard Penderel
Daughter-in-law: Mrs. William Penderel
Son-in-law: Francis Yates
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Aged mother of the five Penderel brothers who aid Charles II during his flight after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester. She comes to her son Richard’s house to meet Charles II.
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*PENDEREL, Eleanor
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SEE: Yates, Mrs. Francis
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*PENDEREL, GEORGE
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Mother: Dame Penderel
Brother: Humphrey Penderel
Brother: John Penderel
Brother: Richard Penderel
Brother: William Penderel
Sister: Mrs. Francis Yates
Niece: Nan Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Richard Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. William Penderel
Brother-in-law: Francis Yates
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A servant to George Giffard who assists Charles II’s escape following the Battle of Worcester.
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*PENDEREL, Humphrey
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Mother: Dame Penderel
Brother: George Penderel
Brother: John Penderel
Brother: Richard Penderel
Brother: William Penderel
Sister: Mrs. Francis Yates
Niece: Nan Penderel
Brother-in-law: Francis Yates
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Richard Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. William Penderel
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One of the five loyal Penderel brothers who help Charles II flee after the Battle of Worcester, Humphrey is a miller by trade, and Charles II deems him to be the wit of the family.
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*PENDEREL, JOHN
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Mother: Dame Penderel
Brother: George Penderel
Brother: Humphrey Penderel
Brother: Richard Penderel
Brother: William Penderel
Sister: Mrs. Francis Yates
Niece: Nan Penderel
Brother-in-law: Francis Yates
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Richard Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. William Penderel
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A woodman and servant to George Giffard who takes Lord Wilmot to a series of houses to hide him after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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?PENDEREL, Nan
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Father: Richard Penderel
Mother: Mrs. Richard Penderel
Grandmother: Dame Penderel
Uncle: Humphrey Penderel
Uncle: John Penderel
Uncle: William Penderel
Uncle: Francis Yates
Aunt: Mrs. Francis Yates
Aunt: Mrs. William Penderel
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A young girl who meets Charles II at her home at Hobbal Grange, soon after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester. She thinks Charles II is a very helpless, hungry man.
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*PENDEREL, Richard
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AKA “Dick” and “Trusty Dick” to Charles II
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Spouse: Mrs. Richard Penderel
Mother: Dame Penderel
Daughter : Nan Penderel
Brother: George Penderel
Brother: Humphrey Penderel
Brother: John Penderel
Brother: William Penderel
Sister: Mrs. Francis Yates
Brother-in-law: Francis Yates
Sister-in-law: Mrs. William Penderel
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A wood-cutter who guides Charles II during the first part of his escape following the Battle of Worcester.
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?PENDEREL, Mrs. Richard
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Spouse: Richard Penderel
Daughter : Nan Penderel
Mother-in-law: Dame Penderel
Brother-in-law: George Penderel
Brother-in-law: Humphrey Penderel
Brother-in-law: John Penderel
Brother-in-law: William Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. William Penderel
Brother-in-law: Francis Yates
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Francis Yates
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She fixes a meal for Charles II, when her husband and his brothers aid the king in his flight following the Battle of Worcester, but fears his presence will ruin them.
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*PENDEREL, William
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Nickname: “Will”
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Mother: Dame Penderel
Wife: Mrs. William Penderel
Brother: George Penderel
Brother: Humphrey Penderel
Brother: John Penderel
Brother: Richard Penderel
Sister: Mrs. Francis Yates
Niece: Nan Penderel
Brother-in-law: Francis Yates
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Brother-in-law: George Penderel
Brother-in-law: Humphrey Penderel
Brother-in-law: John Penderel
Brother-in-law: Richard Penderel
Brother-in-law: Francis Yates
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Richard Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Francis Yates
Niece: Nan Penderel
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When Charles comes to Boscobel House during his flight after the Battle of Worcester, she feeds him and cares for his feet, which are blistered from wearing too small shoes.
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Alternate spelling found in other materials about the events covered in ROYAL ESCAPE.
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SEE: Penderel
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Alternate spelling found in other materials about the events covered in ROYAL ESCAPE.
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?PETERS, Henry
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Colonel Wyndham’s trustworthy servant who serves as a message carrier for Lord Wilmot and Charles II when the king stays with Colonel Wyndham during his flight from England after the Royalist defeat at Worcester.
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*PETRE, John
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Spouse: Mrs. John Petre
Brother-in-law: Colonel Lane
Sister-in-law: Jane Lane
Father-in-law: Mr. Lane
Mother-in-law: Mrs. Lane
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A nervous, fussy man, little interested in the country’s affairs, who accompanies his wife, her sister, Henry Lassels, and Charles II to the Nortons’ house in Abbotsleigh as the king flees after the Battle of Worcester.
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*PETRE, Mrs. John
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Father: Mr. Lane
Mother: Mrs. Lane
Brother: Colonel John Lane
Sister: Jane Lane
Cousin: Henry Lassels
Kinsman: John Tomes
Kinswoman: Mrs. George Norton
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A pleasant, placid woman who accompanies her husband, sister, Henry Lassels and Charles II to the Nortons’ house in Abbotsleigh as the king flees after the Battle of Worcester.
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?PHELIPS, Colonel Edward
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Nickname: “Robin”
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Brother: Colonel Edward Phelips
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A devoted Royalist during the civil wars, Robert Phelips is brought into the plans for Charles II’s escape from England, following the Battle of Worcester, at the suggestion of the Honorable John Coventry. Phelips mistrusts Lord Wilmot at first but agrees to try to find passage for Charles II.
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The Norton’s butler at Abbotsleigh, near Bristol. He had been a falconer to Sir Thomas Jermyn, when Jermyn was one of the then-Prince Charles’ gentlemen of the bedchamber, and had also served as a Royalist soldier under Colonel Bagot in 1643, during the civil war. Pope, who recognizes Charles II when the king arrives at Abbotsleigh in disguise after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester, goes to Bristol to seek passage for the king.
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?POTTER, Mr.
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Potter is mentioned in passing by Horton, the ostler at George Inn in Bridport, as someone he knew earlier as a merchant in Exeter. Charles II then claims to have been Potter’s servant for more than a year to explain why Horton thinks Charles looks familiar, when they encounter each other during the king’s flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*PRESTON, Sir John
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A young man hiding from the Puritans at his uncle’s home because all of his father’s property has been sequestered. He and his two friends are sent to the attic to act as lookouts while Charles II is there during his flight after the Battle of Worcester.
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“REYMES, Colonel Bullen”
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SEE: Wilmot, Lord
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*REYMES, Colonel Bullen (1613-1672)
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An MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and Vice-Admiral of Dorset, Reymes is mentioned in passing as having helped Sir John Berkley escape from Lyme before the events of ROYAL ESCAPE. Reymes later is mentioned as a Dorsetshire man, from Waddon, and the husband of Colonel Frank Wyndham’s sister-in-law. Bullen had once been the lover of the woman who later married Rhys Jones, keeper of the inn in the village of Broad Windsor. Reymes apparently looks much like the portly Lord Wilmot, since Wilmot is taken for Reymes by someone in Lyme and by Mrs. Rhys Jones.
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?REYNOLDS, Mr.
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His house is mentioned in passing by William Penderel as having been the third house in succession rejected as a refuge by the fastidious Lord Wilmot, who is fleeing after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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?RIDER, Margaret
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An elderly servant to the Nortons at Abbotsleigh, near Bristol. She treats Charles II for a supposed case of tertian ague when the king arrives at Abbotsleigh, disguised as an ailing serving-man, during his flight from England after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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*ROCHESTER, Earl of (Henry Wilmot, 2nd Viscount and 1st Baron Wilmot) (ca. 1612-1658)
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?ROGERS, Henry
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Mr. Winter’s servant who guides Lord Wilmot to Castle Cary following the Battle of Worcester.
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*ROSCARROCK, Colonel
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One of Charles II’s supporters who goes with him to White-Ladies following the Battle of Worcester.
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*ROTHES, Lord (John Leslie, 7th Earl of, later 1st Duke of) (ca. 1630-1681)
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A Scottish peer who inherited the earldom when he was about 11, Rothes was a Royalist of long standing and participated in the coronation of Charles II at Scone in January 1651. He raised a regiment of horse and commanded it in Charles II’s invasion of England. He is mentioned in passing in ROYAL ESCAPE as one of the Royalist commanders at the Battle of Worcester who helped hold Castle Hill, a scene of heavy fighting. He was captured at Worcester and imprisoned in the Tower of London and later at Edinburgh Castle. After the Restoration, he was greatly in favor; Charles II created him President of the Scots Council in 1660, made him lord high treasurer for Scotland and a member of the privy council in 1663, and later would create him Duke of Rothes in 1680.
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*Prince Rupert, Count Palantine (1619-1682)
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Uncle: Charles I of England
Cousin: Charles II of England
Cousin: James II of England
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A Royalist commander during the civil war, Rupert himself had Stuart royal blood, being the third son of Frederick of the Palatinate by Princess Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I. Rupert spent most of his boyhood in Holland, since his parents had been driven out of the Palatinate. He visited England in 1636 and became a favorite of Queen Henrietta Maria. A tall, handsome man, he became a soldier in the Dutch army in 1637 and in 1642 was appointed a General of Horse in the English Royalist army. Though not as competent a general as the Parliamentarians Fairfax and Cromwell, Prince Rupert was a courageous, loyal, and capable Royalist soldier during the civil war and was a skilled cavalry commander. He went abroad in 1646 but returned to England in 1648 and obtained the command of a small squadron of English warships, which he would command until 1652. He spent most of the Interregnum on the continent but was invited to England again at the Restoration.
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Satan, mentioned in passing by Charles II in the expression “Retro me, Sathanas.”
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?SELLECK, John
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Mr. Coventry’s chaplain who acts as a messenger between Lord Wilmot and Charles II during their flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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?SHORES, Mr.
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Owner of a modest dwelling at Hungerhill where Lord Wilmot is led after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester. The fastidious Wilmot refuses to stay in so humble a house.
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?SLAUGHTER
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A Royalist at the Battle of Worcester.
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*SMITH, Anthony
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The innkeeper of the George Inn in Brighthelmstone who recognizes Charles II from the time he had served Charles I and hopes to be made a lord for helping him during the king’s flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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?SOUTHALL, Mr.
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A notorious priest-catcher who accompanies a troop of Roundheads to Mosely Hall in search of Catholic priests, while Charles II is hiding there after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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*SOUTHAMPTON, 4th Earl of (Thomas Wriotheseley) (ca. 1607-1667)
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Wriothesley was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, having inherited the earldom as a teenager in 1624. He was a faithful Royalist throughout the 1640s and served as a negotiator for Charles I, retiring from politics after the king’s execution. In ROYAL ESCAPE he is brought into the plans for Charles II’s escape by Mr. Henslow and offers to find the king a boat in which to escape to France. In history, Southampton would later inherit another peerage; at the end of 1653, on the death of his father-in-law, the 1st Earl of Chichester, he became the 2nd Earl of Chichester under a special remainder. However, both earldoms expired in 1667 when he died without surviving male issue.
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?STAUNTON, Mr.
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Apparently a gentleman, he maintains a sheep-fold in the neighborhood of Boscobel from which Major Carlis steals a sheep to feed Charles II during his flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*STRANGWAYS, Sir John
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Son: Colonel Giles Strangways
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Sir John is a gentleman of considerable fortune and influence, living about ten miles from Trent, whose two sons had become colonels in the Royalist army during the civil war. Colonel Wyndham goes to Sir John’s home to ask for his help in getting Charles II passage out of England following the Battle of Worcester but finds only his son Giles at home.
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*STRANGWAYS, Colonel Giles
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Father: Sir John Strangways
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A stocky, soldierly man in his late 30s, son of the wealthy Royalist Sir John Strangways, Giles is the only Strangways at home when Colonel Wyndham comes to seek assistance in getting the fugitive Charles II out of England following the Battle of Worcester. Giles suggests that Colonel Wyndham look for Captain Alford in Lyme to get passage to France and gives him a bag of gold for Charles II.
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?STREET
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A gentleman of Charles II’s bedchamber who was with him at the Battle of Worcester.
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?SWAN, Robert
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Swan is Lord Wilmot’s servant and a man as dignified as his master, whom he accompanies throughout most of the escape following the Royalist defeat at Worcester.
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?SYMONS, Thomas
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Familial nickname: “Tom”
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Wife: Mrs. Thomas Symons
Brother-in-law: George Gounter
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A yeoman to whose comfortable manor at Hambledon Colonel Gounter brings “William Jackson,” the disguised Charles II, and party following the Battle of Worcester. Upon returning from a tavern, Symons discovers the party at his home and takes the king, with his cropped hair, for a Roundhead.
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?SYMONS, Mrs. Thomas
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(nee Ursula Gounter)
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Brother: George Gounter
Sister-in-law: Mrs. George Gounter
Cousin: Captain Thomas Gounter
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Thinks that Charles II has no manners when he stays at her house incognito during his flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*TALBOT, Lord (Francis Talbot, later 11th Earl of Shrewsbury) (ca. 1623-1668)
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Francis Talbot was second son of John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury. Following his elder brother’s death in 1644, he was known by the courtesy title Lord Talbot, as the heir apparent of his father the Earl. Talbot was a captain in the royal army and fought at the Battle of Worcester; he escaped afterward and spent the next few years abroad. He succeeded his father as 11th Earl of Shrewsbury in 1654.
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*TALBOT, [Richard] (1630-1691)
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A supporter of Charles II at the Battle of Worcester, he was created an Irish peer by James II, first as Earl of Tyrconnel (1685) and then as Duke (1689) and was part of James II’s “Catholic Cabal.”
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TATTERSAL, Captain Nicholas
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SEE: Captain Stephen Tattersal
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*TATTERSAL, Captain Stephen
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AKA Captain Nicholas Tattersal [Heyer gives his Christian name as “Stephen,” but some histories give his name as Captain Nicholas Tattersal].
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Tattersal is a merchant captain, well disposed toward the merchant Francis Mansel. After much bargaining with Mansel, Tattersal engages, for a fee of 60 pounds, to transport two “duelists” from Brighthelmstone to France. He immediately recognizes Charles II as the king because, three years previous, in 1648, Charles, then still Prince of Wales and in command of the royal fleet, had captured Captain Tattersal’s ship, along with some fishing vessels. Charles had let the ships go, thus giving Tattersal no resentment of the prince.
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TICHBORNE, Amphillis
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SEE: Hyde, Mrs. Lawrence (II)
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?TICHBORNE, Mary
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Sister: Mrs. Lawrence Hyde (II)
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A guest at her sister’s home, she is surprised that her sister wants to place the disguised Charles II in the best bedroom when he stays there during his flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*TOMES, John
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Kinsman: Colonel Lane
Kinswoman: Jane Lane
Kinswoman: Mrs. John Petre
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Charles II, Jane Lane, the Petres, and Henry Lassels stay at his house in Long Marston on their way to the Nortons’ home in Abbotsleigh during the king’s flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*TURBERVILLE, Henry ( -1677)
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A Douai priest who wrote a catechism found by Charles II at Thomas Whitgreave’s house, where the king stays during his flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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*TYRCONNEL, Duke of
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?WADE, Margaret
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The hostess of the Queen’s Head inn in Charmouth who lodges the disguised Charles II, Juliana Coningsby, and Lord Wilmot during the flight after the Battle of Worcester.
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*WARWICK, Earl of (Thomas Beauchamp) (1314-1369)
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Thomas de Beauchamp inherited as 3rd Earl of Warwick in the de Beauchamp family in the year 1315 and grew into a redoubtable medieval fighting man. He fought in Scotland and in France, was one of the joint commanders of the Prince of Wales’ division at the Battle of Crecy (August 1346), commanded the vanguard at the battle of Poitiers (September 1356), was one of the founding knights of the Order of the Garter, and was Marshal of England from 1343-4 until his death in 1369.
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?WESTLEY, Mr.
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The minister of Charmouth who upon being informed that Charles II was at the Queen’s Head during his flight following the Battle of Worcester confronts Margaret Wade, the inn’s hostess, and later goes to Mr. Butler, the justice of the peace.
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Alternate spelling found in other materials about the events covered in ROYAL ESCAPE.
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*WHITGREAVE, Mrs.
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Son: Thomas Whitgreave
Great-nephew: John Preston
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She doctors Charles II’s feet and makes him laugh, being in turn charmed by him, when she and her son shelter him at their house during his escape following the Battle of Worcester.
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*WHITGREAVE, Thomas
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Mother: Mrs. Whitgreave
Nephew: John Preston
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Whitgreave is a Roman Catholic gentleman who lives at Moseley Hall, near Wolverhampton. A former member of Captain Giffard’s troop in Lord Wilmot’s brigade during the civil war, he and his widowed mother lodged Charles II and Lord Wilmot during their escape after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester. The Catholic priest Father John Huddleston lived at Whitgreave’s house, serving as tutor to his nephew, the young Sir John Preston, and two other boys.
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WILMOT, Lord (Henry Wilmot, 2nd Viscount and 1st Baron Wilmot, later 1st Earl of Rochester) (1613-1658)
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Nickname: Harry AKA: “Mr. Morton,” Mr. Payne,” “Colonel Bullen Reymes,” “Mr. Barlow”
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Henry, Lord Wilmot was the third but eldest surviving son of Charles, 1st Viscount Wilmot in the Irish peerage. He joined the Dutch army and served for two years as captain of a troop of horse. Returning to England, he was elected an MP for Tamworth in 1640 and became a Royalist in the civil war. He fought at Edgehill in 1642, became a Lieutenant General of Horse in 1643, and was given an English peerage (Baron Wilmot) in June of that year, while his father was still alive, though he succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount within the next twelve months. Henry, Lord Wilmot fought at Roundway Down and at Cropredy Bridge, as well as at Worcester. He accompanied Charles II in his flight after the Battle of Worcester and, in December 1652, Charles II, the king in exile, would create him Earl of Rochester. Heyer describes Lord Wilmot as a portly man and portrays his almost comically precise and aloof manner as largely a ploy to cover fear for the safety of his liege. Lord Wilmot travels using various assumed names at different points of his escape after the defeat at Worcester; first, he goes by the name “Mr. Morton,” and later Stephen Limbry (master of the barque on which Wilmot and Charles II plan to sail for France) tells his sailors that Lord Wilmot is a merchant named “Mr. Payne.” After Wilmot is mistaken for Colonel Reymes, a brother-in-law of Colonel Wyndham, the Colonel proposes that Wilmot go by the name “Bullen Reymes.” Still later, during Lord Wilmot’s stay at Hinton Daubnay, he uses the name “Mr. Barlow.”
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?WINTER, John
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Lord Wilmot stays at his house in a village named Dirham, near Abbotsleigh, after leaving Colonel Lane, during the flight after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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*WOGAN, Colonel Edward
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A Royalist at the Battle of Worcester.
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*WOLFE, Mr.
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Spouse: Mrs. Wolfe
Daughter: Ann Wolfe
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An elderly Royalist whose sons all fought in the civil war, he grudging allows Charles II to stay in the barn at his house in Madeley when Charles is making for Wales after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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*WOLFE, Mrs.
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Spouse: Mr. Wolfe
Daughter: Ann Wolfe
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Gives Charles II new stockings and darkens his face and hands with walnut juice when he is at her home during his flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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?WOLFE, Ann
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Father: Mr. Wolfe
Mother: Mrs. Wolfe
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Is much shocked by Charles II’s appearance when he arrives at her father’s house during his flight following the Battle of Worcester.
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?WYNDHAM, Lady
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(nee ---?--- Coningsby)
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Son: Frank Wyndham
Daughter-in-law: Mrs. Frank Wyndham
Brother-in-law: Hugh Wyndham
Niece: Juliana Coningsby
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A widow of 15 years and the mother of five sons, Lady Wyndham resides in her own apartments at her son’s home at Trent House and is served by two Catholic maids and her young kinswoman, Juliana Coningsby. Lady Wyndham knows Lord Wilmot from having met him in Oxford, though Lord Wilmot does not recall her. A shrewd-eyed old lady, she takes Charles II in hand when he arrives at her son’s house during his flight after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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*WYNDHAM, Mrs.
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Mentioned in passing by Lady Wyndham as having been Charles II’s nurse and a “bad, unprincipled woman.”
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*WYNDHAM, Colonel Frank
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Wife: Mrs. Frank Wyndham
Mother: Lady Wyndham
Uncle: Hugh Wyndham
Cousin: Juliana Coningsby
Kinswoman: Mrs. Wyndham
Kinsman: The Honorable John Coventry of Salisbury
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A man known to Charles II, possibly due to his service as governor of Dunster Castle during the civil war, Colonel Wyndham also had served under the command of Lord Wilmot. Following Charles II’s stay at Wyndham’s home in Trent, he accompanies the king and Juliana Coningsby during much of the king’s escape from England after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester.
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*WYNDHAM, Mrs. Frank
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Spouse: Frank Wyndham
Father: Thomas Gerrard
Brother-in-law: Colonel Bullen Reymes
Mother-in-law: Lady Wyndham
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Anne Wyndham is a slim, elegant, well-bred woman. Lord Wilmot soon decides that she is not a Parliamentarian and can be trusted, though he entertains the suspicion that she may be bookish.
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*WYNDHAM, Sir Hugh
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Nephew: Frank Wyndham
Sister-in-law: Lady Wyndham
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A Royalist judge living at Pilsdon, seven miles from Charmouth whose home is invaded by Roundheads in search of Charles II during the king’s flight following the Battle of Worcester. One of his daughters is stripped to prove that she is indeed a female and not the king in disguise.
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*YATES, Francis
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Spouse: Mrs. Francis Yates
Mother-in-law: Dame Penderel
Brother-in-law: George Penderel
Brother-in-law: Humphrey Penderel
Brother-in-law: John Penderel
Brother-in-law: Richard Penderel
Brother-in-law: William Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Richard Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. William Penderel
Niece: Nan Penderel
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A servant of Charles Giffard whom he accompanied at the Battle of Worcester. Francis helps the Penderel brothers assist Charles II’s escape following the battle and gives the king 10 shillings. He was later captured, tortured, and executed.
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*YATES, Mrs. Francis
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Familial nickname: “Nell”
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Mother: Dame Penderel
Brother: George Penderel
Brother: Humphrey Penderel
Brother: John Penderel
Brother: Richard Penderel
Brother: William Penderel
Niece: Nan Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. Richard Penderel
Sister-in-law: Mrs. William Penderel
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Assists her brothers and husband when they help Charles II escape after the Battle of Worcester by bringing the king food while he hides in the woods.
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*ENGLAND, Charles I of (Charles Stewart) (1600-1649)
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AKA King Charles the Martyr
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Spouse: Maria Henrietta of France
Son: Charles II of England
Son: James II of England
Grandmother: Mary Stewart Queen of Scots
Son-in-law: William II, Prince of Orange
Nephew: Prince Rupert, Count Palantine
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Unpopular king who lost his head to Puritan fanatics in January 1649.
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*ENGLAND, Charles II of (Charles Stewart) (1630-1685)
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AKA “Will Jones” and “William Jackson” during his escape; called “Black Boy” by some supporters
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Father: Charles I of England
Mother: Maria Henrietta of France
Brother: James II of England
Great-grandmother: Mary Stewart Queen of Scots
Brother-in-law: William II, Prince of Orange
Cousin: Prince Rupert, Count Palantine
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A charming young man at the time of the ROYAL ESCAPE, he later regained the crown and reigned as a popular though dissolute king.
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*ENGLAND, James II of (James Stewart) (1633-1701)
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Father: Charles I of England
Mother: Maria Henrietta of France
Brother: Charles II of England
Great-grandmother: Mary Stewart Queen of Scots
Brother-in-law: William II, Prince of Orange
Cousin: Prince Rupert, Count Palantine
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Younger brother of Charles II whom he succeeds to the throne. Charles says that James is considered to be “greatly his superior.”
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*SCOTS, Queen of (Mary Stewart) (1542-1587)
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Grandson: Charles I of England
Great-grandson: Charles II of England
Great-grandson: James II of England
Great-grandson: Prince Rupert, Count Palantine
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Mentioned in passing as being a tall woman.
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*FRANCE, Louis XIV King of (1638-1715)
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Sister: Duchess de Montpensier
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The young French king provided a haven for Charles II during the Interregnum.
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