The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . t exposing himselfto the risk of arrest. For a long time, accordingly, he usedto take his exercise on the top of the Palace, pacing up and 360 History of Hampton Court Palace, [1842 down the vast lead flats of the roof, from which secure andlofty position he looked down on his baffled , however, having imprudently come down into theBarrack Yard, the bailiffs, who were on the watch, pouncedon him in an instant, and proceeded straightway to marchhim off triumphantly to the debtors prison. But the in-solvent colonel, though capture
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . t exposing himselfto the risk of arrest. For a long time, accordingly, he usedto take his exercise on the top of the Palace, pacing up and 360 History of Hampton Court Palace, [1842 down the vast lead flats of the roof, from which secure andlofty position he looked down on his baffled , however, having imprudently come down into theBarrack Yard, the bailiffs, who were on the watch, pouncedon him in an instant, and proceeded straightway to marchhim off triumphantly to the debtors prison. But the in-solvent colonel, though captured, was not yet at the end ofhis resources; for, managing to divert their attention for amoment, he suddenly escaped from their grasp, vaulted overthe railings into the Towing Path, rushed to the river-side,plunged in, and swam—in the midst of a shower of stonesfrom the exasperated bailiffs thus baulked of their prey—across to the Surrey side of the Thames, where, in adifferent county, his person was inviolable from the writsissued in
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