THE EXETER ROAD 



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Monmouth is still preserved about Woodyates. It 

 was close to the Woodyates Inn that the giving in of 

 the desperately ridden horses stopped the flight of 

 Monmouth, Grey, and Buyse to the sea. 



Here the fugitives turned their horses loose, concealed 

 the bridles and saddles, disguised themselves as rustics, 

 and made their way on foot towards the New Forest ; 

 and quite close by they fell into the hands of James's 







Old House at Bridport, at one time the Castle Inn. 



troopers. Monmouth himself was taken on the Wood- 

 lands Estate near Horton, his captors failing for some 

 moments to recognise in the gaunt figure, crouching in 

 a ditch, dressed like a shepherd, with a beard of three 

 days' growth, already prematurely grey, the once brilliant 

 and graceful son of Charles II. and Lucy Walters. The 

 ash-tree under which he was discovered still stands. 



Three miles further down the road is Thorley Down 

 Inn ; two miles beyond it stands Cashmoor, famous in the 



