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went and lay in the bern all the next 
day; when, tewards evening, hisson, whe 
had been a prisoner at Sirewsberry, an 
honest man, who had been released and 
came home to his father’s house, and-as 
soon as ever it- began to be a little dark- 
ish, Mr. Woolf and his son brought us 
some meat into the barn, and there we 
discoursed with them wether we might 
safely get over the Severn into Wales, 
which they advised me by no means to 
adventure upon, because of the strict 
guards that were kept all along the 
Severn, where any passage c? be found, 
for preventing any body’s escaping that 
way into Wales. Upon which, I took a 
resolution of going that night the same 
way back again to Penderell’s house, 
where I knew I si’S hear some news 
what was become of my |" Wilmot, and 
resolved again upon going to London. 
So we set out as soon as it was dark, but 
as we came by the mill again, we had no 
mind to be questioned a second time 
there, and therefore asking R’ Penderell 
if he c’4 swim or no, and how deep the 
river was, he told me it. was a scurvy 
river, not easy to be passed in all places, 
and that he co’ not swim. So I told 
him that y® river, being but a little one, 
I w’? undertake to help him over, upon 
which we went over some closes to the 
river side, and entering the river first 
to see wether | myself ¢* go over, who 
knew how to swim, found it was but a 
kittie above my middle, and thereupon 
taking Rich’? Penderell by the hand, I 
helped him over. Which being “done, 
we went On our way to one of the Pen- 
derells brother’s, (bis house being not 
far from White Ladies) who had been 
guide to my 1¢ Wilmot. and we beleived 
by that time might be come back again, 
For my ?¢ Wilmot intended to go to 
London upon his own horse. When I 
eame to this house, f enquired where my 
V4 Wilmot was, it being now towards 
morning, and having traveled these two 
nights on foot. Penderell’s brother told 
me, he had conducted him to a very 
honest geutieman’s house, one Mr. Whit- 
grave’s, not far from Woolverhampton, a 
oman Catholic; I asked him what 
news, he told me there was one major 
Carles in the house, who. was that coun- 
try man, whom I knowing, he having been 
a nnyor ia our army, and having made 
his escape thither, a Roman Catholic 
also, | sent for him into the room were I 
was, and consulting him what we sh’? do 
_the nexc day, he told me, thatit w be 
Gangerous fur me either to stay in that 
Scarce Tracis, Ke. 
[Sept. f, 
house, or to go into the wood, (ther¢ 
being a great wood hard by BoScobell,) 
that he knew but one way how to pass 
the nextday, and that was, to get up inte 
a greatoak im apretty plain place, where 
we might see round about us, for the 
enemy w® certainly search all the wood 
for people that had made their escape. 
Which proposition of his, I approving, 
we (that is to say Carles and I went and 
carried up some victualls, for the whole 
day, viz. some bread, cheese, and small 
beer, and nothing else, and got up into a 
great oak that had been Jopt some thre2 
or four years aga, and being grown out 
again very bushy and thick, co’? not be 
seen thro’, and here we stay’d all the 
day; avdJ having in the mean time sent 
Penderell’s brother to Mr. Whitgrave’s, 
to know wether my I’¢ Wilinot was there 
or no, and had word bro’t me that night 
that my I'¢ was there; that there was a 
very secure haa hole in Mr. Whit- 
grave’s house, and that he desired me to 
come thither to him. (Memorandum) that 
whilst we were in the tree we saw soldi- 
ers going up and down in the thickest of 
the wood, searching for persons that had 
escaped, we seeing them now and then 
peep cut of the wood. That night, 
Rich’ Penderell and I went to Mr. 
Whitgrave’s, about seven miles off, where 
TI found.the. gentleman of the house and 
an old grandmother of his, and father 
Hudleston, who had then the care of 
bringing up two young gentlemen, who I 
think were sir John Preston and his bro- 
ther, they being boys. Here I spoke 
with my {@ Wilmot, and sent him away 
to Col. Lanes, about five or six miles off, 
tu see what means c®@ be found -for my 
escaping towards London; who told my 
l’¢, after some consultation thereon, that 
he had a sister that had a very fair pre- 
tence for goiig hard by Bristol to a cou- 
sin of her’s, that was married to one Mr. 
Norton, who lived two or three miles 
beyond Bristol, on the Somersetshire. 
side, and she might carry me there as her 
man, and from Bristol I might find ship- 
ping to get out of England. _ So the neat 
night I went away to Col. Lanes, where 
I changed my cloths into a little better. 
habbit, lke a serving man, being a kind 
of grey clotiy suit, and the next day Mrs. 
Lane and [ took aur journey towards 
Bristol, resolving to tye at.a place called 
Long Marston, in the vale of Evesham. 
But we had not goné two hours on our 
way, but y® mare [rode on cast a shoe, 
so we were forced. to ride: to.get-anorher’ 
shoe at a scattering village whose name: 
* Beguas” 
