Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. PRINCE OP WALES IN JERSEY--H1B SUITE--HE RESIDES AT ELIZABETH CASTLE--HIS PROCLAMATION--DINES IN PUBLIC--HOLDS A LEVEE--CONFERS TITLES--FIRST VISIT TO CHURCH--REVIEWS MILITIA--ORIGINAL LETTERS--PERPLEXING NEWS FROM THE QUEEN MOTHER--SIR BALDWIN WAKE SUPERSEDES SIR PETER OSBORNE--SEA FIGHT--BIRTHDAY REJOICINGS--HOSTILE SQUADRON RECONNOITRES--SUCCOURS TO PENDENNIS--PRINCE CHARLES' FIRST YACHT--ORDERS NEW FORTS TO BE CONSTRUCTED--A MINT SET UP--THE PRINCE'S REMOVAL TO FRANCE PROJECTED--ORIGINAL LETTERS--THE QUEEN SENDS JERMYN TO JERSEY--DEBATES AT ELIZABETH CASTLE--HYDE'S ROUGH NOTES--HIS HIGHNESS1 DEPARTURE. We now resume Chevalier's journal, and find that on Friday evening the 17--27th of April, 1646, about an hour before sunset, the Proud Black Eagle, a frigate of one hundred and sixty tons, mounting four-and-twenty guns, and commanded by Captain Baldwin Wake, cast anchor before Elizabeth Castle, having his royal highness the Prince of Wales and his immediate suite on board. No single piece of cannon was fired from the frigate or the castle by way of salute, no flag fluttered in the breeze, excepting the royal ensign on the bowsprit of "Le Noir Proudeagle." His highness's visit being no subject of rejoicing, but on the contrary a proof of the unprosperous condition of the royal cause, he thus arrived without pomp or circumstance, and was received with silent but sympathetic respect and loyalty. The prince was attended on board his frigate by the members of his council, and other lords, knights and gentlemen, in addition to six clergymen, all of whom landed without any public demonstration at the castle. In the course of the same night came the Doggerbank, of six guns, belonging to Hasdunck, and a smaller vessel1 of four...
