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not long wanting, for on a fine moonlight night, as he was riding 
through the river at Styford, he encountered Charles in the very 
middle of the stream, who seized the bridle of the bailiff’s horse, 
causing it to rear over its unfortunate rider, and then left them to 
flounder out of the river as best they could. ‘These adventures 
occasioned so much sensation, that the Commissioners determined 
to send down a military force to maintain the confidence of the 
peasants, who were beginning to refuse to till their lands; and as 
Charles at this time met with an opportunity of passing over into 
Holland, from whence he went into France, the small party of 
soldiers gained all the credit of having laid the ghost of the Earl. 
Whether Charles Radcliffe ever revisited Derwentwater is not 
recorded ; but it is not improbable that a man of his active habits 
might do so. Fancy the wanderer taking a bird’s eye view of 
the most ancient of the family estates from the top of Castlet! 
His mind would naturally revert to the times when the de 
Derwentwaters were sole owners of the beautiful lake and valley at 
his feet, with other lands extending towards the sea as far as 
Tallentire, which afterwards passed to a lady of the family, Dorothy 
Radcliffe, who married Francis Dacre, or D’Acre, and their 
daughter, Magdalen, married a Richmond. He might almost have 
wished that his ancestor, Sir Edward Radcliffe, had not married 
the heiress of the Northumberland and Durham estates, and taken 
a wife in his mountain home. 
After a residence of two years in England, again “the childe 
departed from his father’s hall,” and entered into the service of the 
French King. From this time until 1746, little is known of his 
career, but it is not likely that a spirit so energetic remained during 
all this time inactive. The Prince, in whose cause he had suffered 
so much, had gone to his “long home,” and was succeeded by his 
son, Charles Edward, whose mother was grand-daughter of John 
_ Sobieski, the heroic King of Poland. Charles Radcliffe received 
_ acommission in a regiment which was allotted with other forces 
for the Chevalier’s service in Scotland; and with his eldest son, 
James Bartholomew Radcliffe, then in his twentieth year, he again 
sailed for England, and entered on new and romantic scenes of 
