8 Mistress Jane Lane. 
George Penderel provided a “ band” of the latest Puritanical cut 
and a certain William Creswell the shoes ! 
The King unstripped himself of his own clothes, and “ nimbly ” 
put these on. As a finishing touch Richard advanced with a pair 
of shears, and rounded the King’s hair, and the King was pleased 
to take notice of his barbering, and said he preferred it to that of 
Lord Wilmot. 
Boscobel and .t may be noted amongst other incidents that the | 
Heath. Penderel brothers for security buried His Majesty’s 
buff doublet and linen breeches underground, where they lay for 
five weeks before they dared to take them up again. And now, as 
the narrative has it, His Majesty with a billhook, or wood-hatchet, 
was & la mode the woodman. He was re-christened William Jones ! 
In this guise, accompanied only by “ Trusty Dick,” the King of 
King’s Narrative, England stole away into the woods—just escaping 
Pepy’s. being seen by a troop of horse, who rode along 
the edge of the covert. Soaked through by the rain, hungry, and 
generally miserable, the morning of Thursday, September 4th, found 
Charles in this state seeking shelter like a hunted animal from the 
inclemency of the weather and the fury of his pursuers. Good 
Mrs. Yates,' a sister of the Penderels, contrived to bring him a 
blanket, which he alternately threw over his sboulders or used to sit 
upon, and a mess of milk, eggs, and sugar, in a black earthen cup, 
part of which he eat with a pewter spoon, and gave the rest away. 
By way of a desert he had an apple or two, which the woman 
produced from her pocket. The King exchanged his 
ponderous wood-bill for her husband’s lighter broom-hook. To 
while away the time the Penderel family “ coached ” him in the art 
of speaking in the dialect of the county, and having a good ear he 
picked it up very readily. Accommodating himself to circumstances 
he contrived to eat some supper at Richard Penderel’s house, and 
made friends with little Nan, the woodcutter’s daughter—holding 
her on his knee while talking with her mother. With the design 
of crossing the Severn at the ford between Coalport and Apley, he 
Heath. 
1 Richard Penderel certified that his sister was the first to give the King any 
food after his defeat. Calendar State Papers, 1660. 
