Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ilam Anastasic Drawing Society, A. D. 1866
Having, after various halting places, arrived at Abbot's Leigh in Gloucestershire, from his early retreat at Boscobel, he remained there four days. From thence, still ridlng before Miss Lane (who had come with him on a pillion from Bentley), the king, disguised as her groom, and yclept Will Jackson, arrived, after sleeping a night at Castle Cary, on September 17th, at Trent House, in Somersetshire, the residence of Colonel Wyndham. Here he remained with his faith ful friends several days, and then made an attempt to embark from Charmouth in Dorsetshire, but was unsuccessful his whole plan being defeated by the wife of the captain whose vessel he had engaged, locking up her husband for fear of the penalty denounced against all who should aid the king in his escape.
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