. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. i III v.\ \\ I HI WHl I l sun in turning the wheel, — always the same, faithfully turning th«wheel. I gave him a shilling, said Frank, spoke kindly to him, and Idhim gazing after me with tears in his eyes, still turning his wlturning hi* wheel. From Nottingham Master Lewis and the boys went to Birmimham, and Frank Gray and Ernest Wynn made a detour to th A SERIES OE MEMORABLE VISITS. 139. BOSCOBEL. little village of Madeley, andvisited Boscobel, the place ofrefuge of King Charles II. af-ter his defeat at the battle ofWorcester.
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. i III v.\ \\ I HI WHl I l sun in turning the wheel, — always the same, faithfully turning th«wheel. I gave him a shilling, said Frank, spoke kindly to him, and Idhim gazing after me with tears in his eyes, still turning his wlturning hi* wheel. From Nottingham Master Lewis and the boys went to Birmimham, and Frank Gray and Ernest Wynn made a detour to th A SERIES OE MEMORABLE VISITS. 139. BOSCOBEL. little village of Madeley, andvisited Boscobel, the place ofrefuge of King Charles II. af-ter his defeat at the battle ofWorcester. The king first ar-rived at White Ladies aboutthree-quarters of a mile fromBoscobel House: there he se-creted himself in an oak, after-wards famous as the RoyalOak of Boscobel. The broth-ers Penderell, foresters andyeomen, concealed him in closets in their simple mansion, beingtrue to their sovereign, at the risk of their lives, when it might haveraised them from poverty to riches to have uttered a The closets in which Charles was concealed are exhibited to visitors,ind Frank and Ernest were allowed to pass up and down the passages hat had afforded so secure a retreat to the fugitive. In the parlor hey were shown a-himney-piece, and >n .one of the panels picture of the king n the oak, and on nother the kino: in isguise on horse- ack, escorted by the enderells. It is said that the ings pursuers were jirown off the right ack o
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