This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...and subjected to a cross-examination by the authorities, the king's recent visit to White Ladies having now become generally known. The reward for the discovery of the king was a thousand pounds, and the punishment for concealing him "death without mercy." The highminded yeoman, however, was alike deaf to threats and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...and subjected to a cross-examination by the authorities, the king's recent visit to White Ladies having now become generally known. The reward for the discovery of the king was a thousand pounds, and the punishment for concealing him "death without mercy." The highminded yeoman, however, was alike deaf to threats and temptation, and, like his gallant brothers, remained true to the last. Charles, seating himself close to the small door which led to his hiding-place in the chimney-stack, spent the fourth day of his wanderings in the garden of Boscobel. Dispirited as the young king may be presumed to have been, his appetite at this period appears to have been as keen, as the culinary resources of the humble Penderells were scanty and indifferent. To remedy this evil, early in the morning, before the king had risen, Careless, accompanied by William Penderell, repaired to a sheepfold in the neighbourhood, and, sticking his dagger into one of the fattest of the animals, William brought it home on his back. Charles himself assisted at the cooking. Sending for a knife and a trencher, he cut a portion of the leg into slices, and laying them on the frying-pan, with the addition of some butter, applied himself seriously to his interesting occupation. When Careless afterward joined Charles's little court on the Continent, the king reminded him gaily of their morning's work, and, appealing to the bystanders, inquired which of the two ought to be considered the master-cook. The courtiers of course gave it in favour of his Majesty. It must be remarked, that one of the Penderells afterward offered to remunerate the owner of the slaughtered sheep. Ascertaining, however, that it had been sacrificed to appease the hunger of a suffering cavalier, the man positively r...
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