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of supplement though antecedent in date to my paper on 

 Charles II. in Dorset, which I read before this Society at the 

 meeting on Pilsdon Hill in September, 1886, and which appears 

 in Vol. VIII. of the " Proceedings." 



The work which I have taken as the title, and which forms the 

 basis of my present paper, was published in 1854 (two vols.) by 

 Dr. S. Elliott Hoskins, of Guernsey, and I much regret that, 

 owing to the shortness of time at my disposal, I cannot put 

 before my readers anything more than a very hurried and meagre 

 account from this work and its authorities of those interesting 

 events which led up to those even more eventful ones which 

 formed the subject of my earlier paper. Short as that time, 

 however, was, and meagre as the account that I was able in 

 that time to compress within it, one cannot help being struck at 

 the very great resemblance that exists between the circumstances 

 and incidents which occurred at that time and those which we 

 are now assembled to commemorate in 1904. The same 

 courageous behaviour, the same coolness in danger, were as 

 characteristic of the Prince in 1646 as they were of the de jure, 

 if not de facto, King in 1651 ; whilst I am happy to say that the 

 same loyalty which was then shewn to the falling fortunes of the 

 Royal cause in the West of England, and was extended to the 

 island of Jersey, was worthily reproduced in all that was best 

 and noblest amongst the honest folk of Dorset when the 

 fortunes of that cause had fallen even still lower. 



Thus, having formed, as I hope, a sufficient connecting link 

 between the fortunes of the exiled Prince in Jersey and those of 

 the fugitive King in Dorset to warrant my paper being acceptable 

 to a Dorset Society, let me place before my readers the account 

 which I have been able to so scantily glean. 



Dr. Hoskins' work is based on the Journal of John Chevalier, 

 a contemporary chronicler of remarkable events occurring in 

 Jersey during the Civil Wars from about the commencement of 

 1643 to February, 1650. This Journal, written in French, con- 

 tains many transcripts from original documents. Dr. Hoskins also 

 largely refers to the Clarendon State Papers, the Clarendon MSS. 



