Empress Matilda escaping through a postern door during King Stephen I's siege of Oxford, December, 1142. She wore white robes to camouflage in the snow. Matilda's escape from Oxford Castle. Copperplate engraving from M. A. Jones’ History of England from Julius Caesar to George IV, G. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, London, 1836.

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