BRIDPORT AND LYME REGIS MEETING. Ixi. 



Extract from the Statement of William Ellesdon, of Lyme, 

 in the Clarendon State Papers. 



Friday, Sept 19. 1651. 



" And the next day (being Friday) Colonel Wyndham 

 resolved upon returning to his house at Trent with these 

 hopeful tidings to His Majesty. I bore him company 

 part of his journey and chose the land road from Lyme to 

 Charmouth, that upon the top of a hill situate in our way 

 betwixt these two towns, upon a second view he might be 

 the more perfectly acquainted with the way which leads 

 to Charmouth to the place appointed for His Majesty's 

 taking boat etc. 



This message being performed the rooms made sure 

 of and the servant returned, I then showed the Colonel a 

 country house of my fathers distant both from Lyme and 

 Charmouth about a mile and a half which (for the privacy 

 of it) we determined should be the place whither His 

 Majesty with the Lord Willmot, who then waited on him, 

 should repair on Monday next etc." 



Extract from Dr. Bates' Elenchus Motuum, English 

 Translation, p. 142. 



Monday Sept 22. 1651. 



Leaving therefore Trent the King sets out towards 

 Cheyermouth, with Juliana Conisbey his pretended Bride, 

 who was privy to the matter, riding behind him upon the 

 same Horse. The Lord Wilmot, Colonel Windham and 

 Henry Peters accompany them ; and were met by Elden 

 who carried them into a private house, whither he went 

 under pretext of viewing a little Farm. Here the King's 

 Majesty discovered himself unto him giving him a small 

 present as an earnest of future Gratitude. From thence 

 this Merchant goes to Lime, that he might give notice to 



