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CARISBROOKE CASTLE.
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from the Ifle of Wight, and once from St. James’s in London.
He was called upon to compound for his own liberty by the
facrifice of half his eftate, and was purfued by inceffant actions
for ^40,000, for which he had made himfelf refponfible to
different creditors whilft private treafurer to the king. As for
the king himfelf, hiftory has made us all familiar with his
CARISBROOKE CASTLE.
melancholy ftory. His enemies found a wider window for
him at Whitehall than he found for himfelf at Carifbrooke,
through which he efcaped from them into the great liberty of
the invifible.
After Charles’s death, Carifbrooke was made the place of
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201
from the Ifle of Wight, and once from St. James’s in London.
He was called upon to compound for his own liberty by the
facrifice of half his eftate, and was purfued by inceffant actions
for ^40,000, for which he had made himfelf refponfible to
different creditors whilft private treafurer to the king. As for
the king himfelf, hiftory has made us all familiar with his
CARISBROOKE CASTLE.
melancholy ftory. His enemies found a wider window for
him at Whitehall than he found for himfelf at Carifbrooke,
through which he efcaped from them into the great liberty of
the invifible.
After Charles’s death, Carifbrooke was made the place of
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