Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II

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Various. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II

THE DESERTED VILLAGE

THE FUGITIVE KING AT BOSCOBEL; ADVENTURES OF THE MERRY MONARCH

GUNPOWDER AND CHALK

THE ESCAPE OF QUEEN MARY FROM LOCHLEVEN CASTLE

A GERMAN PICTURE OF THE SCOTCH

THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONISTS, MARAT, ROBESPIERRE, AND DANTON

RATTLIN THE REEFER'S DREAM. A TOUGH BUT TRUE YARN

LETTERS AND LETTER WRITING

A CHAPTER ON SHAWLS

A NIGHT OF TERROR IN A POLISH INN

JOURNEY TO BRCZWEZMCISL

THE OLD STAROSTY.9

THE SENTRY

THE DEATH-THROES

THE LIGHT OF DAY

ENGLAND IN 1850

THE HAUNTS OF GENIUS. GRAY, BURKE, MILTON, DRYDEN, AND POPE

FLOWERS IN THE SICK ROOM

LIVELY TURTLE

THE UNLAWFUL GIFT; OR, KINDNESS REWARDED

THE GAMBLERS OF THE RHINE

THE CONFLICT OF LOVE – A TALE OF REAL LIFE

STREET MUSIC IN LONDON

MISTAKES IN PERSONAL IDENTITY

THE GHOST THAT APPEARED TO MRS. WHARTON

THE FATE OF A GERMAN REFORMER. A LIFE IN THREE PICTURES

PICTURE THE FIRST

PICTURE THE SECOND

PICTURE THE THIRD

THE DEATH OF JOHN RANDOLPH

AN AGREEABLE SURPRISE

A DEATH-BED

MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE

Book II. – Initial Chapter: – Informing the Reader how this Work came to have Initial Chapters

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

ANECDOTE OF A DOG

THE DOMESTIC LIFE OF ALEXANDER, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA

AN EMPTY HOUSE; OR, STRUGGLES OF THE POOR

COLDS AND COLD WATER

SINNERS AND SUFFERERS; OR, THE VILLAINY OF HIGH LIFE

THE GOLDEN AGE

"GIVE WISELY!" AN ANECDOTE

MONTHLY RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS

UNITED STATES

GREAT BRITAIN

FRANCE

THE DANISH WAR

INDIA AND CHINA

TURKEY

TUSCANY

EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE

UNITED STATES

GREAT BRITAIN

FRANCE

GERMANY, ITALY, Etc

LITERARY NOTICES

Fashions for December

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The first fugitive of note who sought refuge, in his distress, at Boscobel House, was the unfortunate Earl of Derby, whose defeat at Bolton-le-Moors, near Wigan, was the precursor to that of the young king at Worcester, eight days later. The Earl of Derby, having escaped from his lost battle, with Colonel Roscarrock and two servants, got into the confines of Shropshire and Staffordshire, where he had the good luck to encounter an old friend, Mr. Richard Snead, an honest gentleman of that country, to whom he told the news of his own overthrow, and inquired if he knew of any private house, near at hand, where he might repose himself and his company in safety, till he could find an opportunity of joining the king. Mr. Snead, like a good Samaritan, conducted his noble friend to Boscobel House, where they arrived on Friday, August 29th, but found no one at home, except William Penderel, the housekeeper, and his wife, who, on their own responsibility, ventured to receive the noble cavalier, his companion, and servants, and kindly entertained them till the Sunday; and then, according to the earl's desire, conveyed them safely to Gataker Park, nine miles on their way to Worcester, where he arrived in time to take his part in that engagement which was emphatically styled by Stapylton, the roundhead, "the setting of the young king's glory."

The Earl of Derby and Colonel Roscarrock were in close attendance on Charles's person during the retreat from Worcester. They all made a stand on Kinner Heath, on the road to Kidderminster, as the night set in, to hold a consultation, when his majesty, being very tired, inquired of them and Lord Wilmot, "If they thought there was any place where he might venture to take a few hours' rest?" The Earl of Derby told him, "how, in his flight from Wigan to Worcester, he had met with that rara avis, a perfectly honest man, and a great convenience of concealment at Boscobel House; which, nevertheless, he thought it his duty to inform his majesty, was the abode of a recusant." At another time, some of the party might have objected to the young sovereign going to such quarters, but the danger being so imminent, now it was suggested, "that these people being accustomed to persecutions and searches, were most likely to possess the most ingenious contrivances to conceal him." At all events, the king made up his mind to proceed thither. When this decision was made known to Lord Talbot, he called for a young kinsman of the recusant master of Boscobel, Mr. Charles Giffard, who was fortunately among the sixty cavaliers who still shared the fortunes of their fugitive king. Lord Talbot inquired of this gentleman, if he could conduct his majesty to Boscobel. Charles Giffard cheerfully undertook to do so, having with him a servant of the name of Yates, who understood the country perfectly.

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The king not being yet recovered from the effect of his walk to Madely and back, it was agreed that he should ride on Humphrey's mill-horse, which was forthwith fetched home from grass, and accoutred with a pitiful old saddle and worse bridle. Before mounting, the king bade farewell to Colonel Carlis, who could not safely attend him, being too well known in that neighborhood.

The night was dark and rainy, dismal as the fortunes of the fugitive king, who, mounting Humphrey's mare, rode toward Mosely, attended by an especial body-guard of the five Penderels and their brother-in-law, Francis Yates; each of these was armed with a bill and pikestaff, having pistols in their pockets. Two marched before, one on each side their royal charge, and two came behind, a little in the rear – all resolutely determined, in case of danger, to have shown their valor in defending as well as they had done their fidelity in concealing their distressed sovereign. After some experience of the horse's paces, the king declared, "It was the heaviest, dull jade he ever bestrode." Humphrey, who was the owner of the beast, wittily replied —

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