1652-4.] 



OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 



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been better assured than history determines, that his 

 life, at all events, would be safe. It is stated in the 

 History of the Tower, 6 in noticing the Marquis of Wor 

 cester being added to the number of distinguished 

 persons confined there in 1652, that the wants and dis 

 tresses to which he had been subjected on the continent 

 had driven him to seek shelter in his own country. 



BIRD S-EYE VIEW FROM MAP OF LONDON, 1658. 



On the 28th of July, 1652, the House of Commons, 

 immediately after prayers, &quot; Resolved, That the Earl 

 of Worcester do stand committed to the Tower of 

 London, in order to his trial.&quot; And, &quot; That it be re 

 ferred to the Council of State to consider, in what way 

 the Earl of Worcester may be tried, and who hath har 

 boured him ; and to consider of all circumstances in his 

 business, and to report their opinion thereon to the 

 House, on Friday morning next.&quot; 



Bay Icy. 



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