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CARISBR00KE CASTLE.
contrived to correfpond with him, and a plan was laid for his
efcape to France to join the queen. He wrote a letter to
Henrietta, defiring her to fend a veffel for him, which was
done. The veffel lay at Southampton as a merchant veflel with
French commodities for fale. But the winds proved contrary,
and before they changed, Charles was not allowed to ride out
as he had been, but was confined to the walls of the caftle.
It was then agreed that he fhould at night efcape out of his
window, and horfes were in fecret waiting to convey him to
Ofborne, and fo to Cowes, and over to Southampton to the
queen’s fhip. Charles had found that he could pafs his head
through the window, and he thence concluded from a popular
faw that where the head could pafs the body could follow.
But in this, as in all his affairs, poor Charles had put his head
through the wrong way, that is, with the face foremoft, and
not fideways, in which the head being longer is the teft. He
had for years been trying to draw his body through the Britifh
conffitution, becaufe he thought he had got his head through
it; yet he had fignally failed. And fo it proved in this cafe :
he had to fend word the next morning to his friends, that,
though he had got his head through, he could not get his body
through, and after much Framing had got back again, though
he had for fome time Fuck quite faF.
The attempt got wind. In fadf, Cromwell wrote to
Hammond that the committee at Derby Houfe had full infor-
mation regarding it; and accordingly, not only was the king
more Friftly watched, but his three followers, now Afhburn-
ham, Legg, and Levett, were feized and conveyed feparately
to Arundel, Warwick, and Wallingford caFles. After a time,
Afhburnham was liberated, and ordered to keep himfelf at his
own houfe in Suffex, and not to go nearer to London. Not-
withFanding, he Fill maintained a correfpondence with Charles,
and engaged in other fchemes to effect his efcape once again
CARISBR00KE CASTLE.
contrived to correfpond with him, and a plan was laid for his
efcape to France to join the queen. He wrote a letter to
Henrietta, defiring her to fend a veffel for him, which was
done. The veffel lay at Southampton as a merchant veflel with
French commodities for fale. But the winds proved contrary,
and before they changed, Charles was not allowed to ride out
as he had been, but was confined to the walls of the caftle.
It was then agreed that he fhould at night efcape out of his
window, and horfes were in fecret waiting to convey him to
Ofborne, and fo to Cowes, and over to Southampton to the
queen’s fhip. Charles had found that he could pafs his head
through the window, and he thence concluded from a popular
faw that where the head could pafs the body could follow.
But in this, as in all his affairs, poor Charles had put his head
through the wrong way, that is, with the face foremoft, and
not fideways, in which the head being longer is the teft. He
had for years been trying to draw his body through the Britifh
conffitution, becaufe he thought he had got his head through
it; yet he had fignally failed. And fo it proved in this cafe :
he had to fend word the next morning to his friends, that,
though he had got his head through, he could not get his body
through, and after much Framing had got back again, though
he had for fome time Fuck quite faF.
The attempt got wind. In fadf, Cromwell wrote to
Hammond that the committee at Derby Houfe had full infor-
mation regarding it; and accordingly, not only was the king
more Friftly watched, but his three followers, now Afhburn-
ham, Legg, and Levett, were feized and conveyed feparately
to Arundel, Warwick, and Wallingford caFles. After a time,
Afhburnham was liberated, and ordered to keep himfelf at his
own houfe in Suffex, and not to go nearer to London. Not-
withFanding, he Fill maintained a correfpondence with Charles,
and engaged in other fchemes to effect his efcape once again