II. in t$e amtei: 



J. S. UDAL, Esq., F.S.A 



TN view of the impending visit of the Dorset Field 

 Club to Bridport and Lyme Regis on i3th and 

 1 4th September with the object of following, so 

 far as possible, in the footsteps of King Charles II. 

 at the time of his attempted escape to France 

 from the Dorset coast in the month of September, 

 1651, I cast about me during a short visit I paid 

 to Jersey last week to see if I could discover 

 anything that might form a comparison between 

 what has been described by the late Bishop of LlandafTas "the 

 most romantic piece of English history that we possess " (the 

 anniversary of which it is intended that the Field Club should 

 keep to-day) and that hasty journey to the Channel Islands 

 which the King, when Prince of Wales, was compelled to take 

 some five years previously. 



Whilst on this quest a friend suggested to me that I should 

 consult the publication which now forms the subject matter of 

 this paper. A few hours' study of it in that most excellent 

 institution the Bibliotheque Publique at St. Heliers soon put me 

 en rapport with something that I thought might furnish a kind 



