Part 27

The unfortunate upholder of "divine right in kings" passed to his account in January, 1649. In 1651, Charles II escaped with his forces out of Scotland, and marching through the northern and midland counties, entered Worcester on the 23rd of August. Major-Generals Lambert and Harrison had despatched some forces to secure the place, lest the King should make it a quarter or garrison. These and the country levies made a brave resistance and beat back the Royalists several times, but the townsmen having laid down their arms, and some of them shooting at the Parliament soldiers out of the windows, they removed their ammunition, while a party of only thirty men kept the enemy at bay. They then retired in good order upon Gloucester, the King's troops being too much fatigued by their long marches from the north to pursue them. Charles was proclaimed King in this city. The result of the disastrous battle of Worcester has been already described by various historians. William Bagnall, then living in Sidbury, being one of the "Chamber," or Corporation, turned out a horse, ready bridled and saddled, for the use of his Majesty, when the latter was so near being captured. Mr. Bagnall died in a year afterwards, but the family would never afterwards receive any consideration for the horse or saddle. In Chambers's "Biographical Illustrations" it is stated that "Sir Charles Wogan is said to have been robbed of the honour of saving King Charles II after the battle of Worcester, as he stopped those who were in chase of his Majesty and Colonel Carless." At Wolverley, in the dell upon the brink of which Lea Castle stands, is still shown the spot over which the King crossed on his way to Kinfare and Boscobel.

On the Bromyard road, some three miles and a half from the city of Worcester (says a writer in the publication called "Notes and Queries"), is Cotheridge Court, the manorial residence of the Berkeleys. The Mr. Berkeley who held it at the date of the battle of Worcester was a stout Royalist, and went to help the fallen fortunes of his King. It so chanced that he had two piebald horses, who were exactly like each other, "specially Sambo," as the niggers say. He made one of these horses his charger, and rode him to the fight. When Cromwell had gained his "crowning merits," Mr. Berkeley escaped to Cotheridge as best he might; and planning a very skilful ruse, left his exhausted charger at one of the farmhouses not far from the court. He then betook himself to bed, and, as he had foreseen, a troop of crop-headed Parliamentarists now made their appearance before his doors and sought admittance. Mr. Berkeley was ill in bed, and could not be seen. Fudge! they must see him. So they go to his bed-side. "So you were fighting against us at Worcester to-day, were you?" say the crop-heads. "Me!" says Mr. Berkeley, faintly and innocently; "why, I am sick, and forced to keep my bed." "All very fine," say the crop-heads, "but you were there, my dear sir, for you rode a piebald charger, and were very conspicuous." "It could not have been me," says the sick man, "for though I certainly do ride a piebald charger when I am in health, yet he has never been out of the stable all day. If you doubt my word, you had better go to the stable and satisfy yourselves." So the crop-heads go to the stable, and there, of course, find piebald No. 2, as fresh as a daisy, and evidently not from Worcester. So they conclude that they had mistaken their man, and leave the sick Mr. Berkeley to get well and laugh at the ruse he had so successfully played upon them.

After his flight from Worcester and concealment at White Ladies, the King appeared as "Will Jones," attired in a leather doublet, with pewter buttons, a pair of old green breeches, a green "jump coat," a pair of stockings with the tops cut off, a pair of stirrup stockings, a pair of shoes cut and slashed to give ease to his feet, an old grey greasy hat without a lining, a "noggen shirt" of the coarsest linen, his hands and face made of a "reechy complexion" with the aid of walnut leaves. He attempted to reach Wales, but got no further than Madeley, being obliged to return, as there were no means of crossing the Severn, without danger. He returned to his shelter in Staffordshire, and quitted his suit for a new grey one, as the holiday attire of a farmer's son, and thus as "Will Jackson" he rode before Mrs. Jane Lane, and ultimately effected his escape.

In Martley church is still, I believe, an inscription to Lettice Lane, sister to the above Mrs. Jane Lane, who rode with Charles II, disguised as her servant, on his retreat to the south-west coast. On the floor of the old church of Knightwick (recently closed) was also a plain stone to Grace Lane, another of the same family. It is said that his Majesty halted at Knightwick, and was glad to turn shoeblack at the Talbot inn, to avoid the suspicion of pursuers. Colonel Lane, of Bentley, Staffordshire, had property at Knightwick, and the young lady, with her royal master, probably rested here on that account. The gold pouncet box given by the King to Mrs. Jane Lane during their journey from Bentley to Bristol, after the battle of Worcester, and a beautiful portrait (a miniature) of Colonel Lane, were exhibited by Miss Yonge, at the Archæological Institute Meeting at Shrewsbury, October, 1855. On the former are engraved, on a lozenge, the arms of the Lane family, with the canton of England granted as an honourable augmentation. These interesting relics were in the possession of Dr. Arden, who married a lady of the Lane family, and they were presented by Miss Arden to their present possessor. In "Colston's Life and Times" is the following interesting allusion to the progress of the royal fugitive:--"At the close of the year, the vessel which conveyed the body of the Lord-Deputy Ireton, who had died of the plague, at Limerick, came into King Road, 'notice of which having been forwarded to the Mayor of Bristol, he sent a boat, covered with black, in which the corpse was brought to the city. When the body was landed, a velvet pall was placed over the coffin, and the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, in their formalities, and the Governor and his officers, with a multitude of citizens, attended the body. On this occasion the great guns were fired from the castle and fort.' Nearly coincident with the above, a horseman, with apparently his mistress seated behind him, on a pillion, entered Bristol at Lawford's Gate. He was unknown, unnoticed; but between him, and the ashes that with gloomy solemnity were paraded, there was a connecting link--connecting yet repulsive. They were the ashes of a fallen foe, the mortal remains of an enemy--of one who had sentenced to a traitor's doom the august sire of the menial who now journeyed through a city, whose allegiance to him and his cause had been severed, where there awaited a thousand arms to deliver him to captivity, perhaps to death. The place is evidently familiar to the rider. He made no inquiries, but conducted his horse unheeded through the streets. He arrives in view of the lofty bulwarks of the castle, its towers and gigantic keep. Their sight may have called forth latent memories, for here the horse was stayed, turned aside, as though the travellers would take a passing survey of the stately pile; but this was all; they halted not to rest at inn or hostelry, nor dismounted to refresh the steed, but quietly and leisurely continued their course, through a narrow gloomy street, over the bridge, and thus in safety passed from out the ancient town, unsuspected, unchallenged, and unknown. How strange are life's vicissitudes, its contrasts! A king, disguised--passing obscurely through a half hostile city! The mortal remains of the son-in-law of the usurper of his kingdom received with military honours and Royal etiquette. In one quarter, pomp and state following the ashes, as would befit a monarch's obsequies; in another, a deserted crownless sovereign, in lowly garb, eludes the pursuit of his enemy, and passes in safety to a less doubtful shelter from the city, of which he was the lawful lord. In after years, all this quaint and gorgeous pomp will be displayed to welcome this fugitive, and he will be escorted triumphantly through its lately hostile bosom."

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In reference to the Civil Wars in this county, the following extracts from Dugdale's Diary will be found to possess some interest:

"March 22, 1644. This night, ---- brother to Fox ye tinker (wch. keeps a garrison of rebells in Edgbaston House, com. Warr.) entred Sturton Castle, com. Stafford, with 200 men from ---- to plant a garrison there.

"May 3 [1644].--Sr. Tho. Littleton, of Frankley, com. Wigorn, taken prisoner by a p'ty of horse (sent by Fox, the tinker from Edgbaston) to Ticknall Mannor near Beaudley."

John Fox "the Tinker," as he is here and before called, and "that rogue Fox" as the Royalists sometimes term him, appears to have been a very active officer, and no small annoyance to his adversaries. Amongst the papers of the republican Earl of Denbigh, who was commander in chief of the forces in the counties of Warwick, Worcester, Stafford, and Salop, is a memorandum, made about March, 1643-4, of a commission granted to John Fox to be colonel of a regiment to consist of six troops of horse and two companies of dragoons, and a commission to Reynold Fox to be his major. The same collection (which is arranged in two large folio volumes) contains several letters from Fox, during his occupation of Edgbaston House, where nothing but the enthusiasm of party could have kept his ill-clothed and ill-paid soldiers together. Indeed, at one time, he confesses that he durst not leave them to wait upon his Lordship, "for feare of mutunyes and a _general departure_." Fox signs in an illiterate manner, and his letters are always in the writing of another hand, probably that of a German, as he mentions "Hampton, Brewood, and the Dorpes [villages] thereabouts." By referring to October 5, following, it will be found that the united forces from Worcester and Dudley Castle were not able to unkennel him in his little garrison at Edgbaston, but "returned without doing anything;" or--as Fox would probably have said--were repulsed with loss. Odious enough in the eyes of the Cavaliers, for his successful opposition, he was surcharged with being one of King Charles's executioners: "Some have a conceit that he that gave the stroke was one Collonell Foxe, and the other Captain Joyce, who took the King from Holmby, but that is not believed."--Journal of the Earl of Leicester, in Sydney Papers, by Blencowe, p. 61.

"October 5.--Forces went out of Worcester and joyned with others from Dudley Castle to recover Edgbaston House from ye Rebells. Returned without doing anything."

THE END.

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TEA, COFFEE, & SPICE WAREHOUSE,

(=Established upwards of a Century=)

25, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER.

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Every description of

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HADLEY,

THE LONDON HAIR CUTTER.

His practice in Hair Cutting now exceeds 400 Hair Cuttings per month. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who really value a good Head of Hair, and otherwise approve of being respectfully served without flattery or deception, will do well by giving him a call at

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COMBS, BRUSHES, SOAPS, &C.

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CARVER AND GILDER,

17, MEALCHEAPEN STREET,

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WORCESTER,

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ARTISTS, AND THE TRADE IN GENERAL, SUPPLIED AS USUAL.

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SEEDS, FRUIT, AND GAME.

THOMAS BLAND ATKINSON,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

SEEDSMAN, FLORIST, FRUITERER,

AND

DEALER IN GAME, VENISON, PICKLES, SAUCES, &c.,

64, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER,

(_Next Door to the_ OLD BANK, _the Shop lately occupied by James Beese_)

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To her late Majesty Queen Adelaide,

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_A Spring Seed Catalogue is published in January; Agricultural Seed List in April; and Dutch Flower Root List in September._

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THE BEST AND CHEAPEST EVER SOLD

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79, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER,

AND AT LONDON HOUSE, HIGH STREET, DUDLEY,

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Fishmonger, &c.,

(Next door to Mr. Newton's)

23, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER,

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A regular supply of all kinds of Fish from the first Fisheries and Markets in the Kingdom.

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23, MEALCHEAPEN STREET,

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ESTABLISHED 1795.

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AT

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=11, ST. SWITHIN STREET, WORCESTER.=

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43, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER.

(_Established upwards of a Century._)

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70, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER.

The general stock at 70, Broad Street, comprising Ladies' and Gentlemen's Saddles, Riding and Driving Whips, Canes, Rugs and Horse Clothing, Railway Wrappers, Spurs, Brushes, Sponge, &c., &c., is well selected, and will receive continued augmentation as novelties are introduced.

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By Special Appointment to Her late Majesty

Queen Adelaide, and H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent.

ROYAL PORCELAIN HOUSE

AND

CUT GLASS MANUFACTORY,

=No. 7, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER.=

JOSEPH SPARKS & CO.,

(SUCCESSORS TO GEORGE SPARKS)

Beg most respectfully to solicit a continuance of the favours so long conferred upon the late Proprietor by the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, and Public generally, of this and the neighbouring Counties.

BEING MANUFACTURERS,

J. S. & Co. can state with the utmost confidence that all orders will be executed with the greatest care and attention, and with more than usual accuracy, and at the same time at much lower prices than can be afforded by the Trade generally.

J. S. & Co. are Agents to the far-famed Coalport China Works, the Proprietors of which have just had a First Class Gold Medal awarded them by the Emperor of the French; they are also the manufacturers of the magnificent Turquoise Dessert Service, purchased at the French Exhibition by Mons. Heine, the eminent Banker of Paris, for One Thousand Guineas.

Many choice Specimens of this rare manufacture now on view at

=No. 7, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER,=

where is also collected an immense Stock of every article connected with the China, Glass, and Earthenware Trade.

MATCHINGS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION EXECUTED WITH THE UTMOST DESPATCH.

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J. GRAY,

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

HOSIER AND HABERDASHER,

=43, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER.=

(Established upwards of a Century.)

=LAMBS' WOOL, MERINO, WORSTED, & COTTON HOSE, HALF HOSE, &c.=

VESTS, PANTALOONS & DRAWERS, LONG CLOTH SHIRTS, collars & fronts, ties, gloves, braces, &c.

Umbrellas and Parasols in Silk, Alpaca, and Cotton.

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HABERDASHERY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

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NEW FISH SHOP.

SAMUEL JAMES

Respectfully informs the Public of Worcester and Vicinity that he has REMOVED his FISH BUSINESS from NEWPORT STREET to those Central Premises,

13, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER,

=AS A FISH SHOP=,

where he will constantly have on hand a Supply of all kinds of Fish in Season, at reasonable prices. Daily Supplies of Fresh Fish from Billingsgate and the Fisheries of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

SAMUEL JAMES continues to carry on the Business of CURER OF BLOATERS, in which department he has now been well known for some time as a Wholesale and Retail Dealer.

At the Premises in Broad Street, in a few days, S. JAMES will be prepared with

=PRIVATE OYSTER ROOMS=,

which will be found convenient and comfortable in all respects.

13, Broad Street, Worcester.

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THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART.

=F. C. EARL,=

42, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER,

Respectfully announces that he practises the above Art in all its various departments, viz.:

=CHROMO-COLLODIOTYPE PORTRAITS=

ON GLASS;

=PORTRAITS ON PAPER,=

PLAIN OR COLOURED;

=PORTRAITS FOR THE STEREOSCOPE,=

ON GLASS OR PAPER, TAKEN.

LANDSCAPE, ARCHITECTURAL, or other description of OUT-DOOR PHOTOGRAPHY, executed with despatch, on reasonable terms, daily, from Nine a.m. until dusk.

A Selection of Local Views for the Album or Stereoscope always on Sale.