Stonehenge 221–2
Stourbridge 105–6
Stow-on-the-Wold 107
Strangwayes, Giles 174
Stratford-upon-Avon 165–6, 167
Stuart, Frances ‘La Belle Stuart’ 264–5
Suffolk, Earl of 246
Surprise (ship) 217, 222, 229, 230, 232, 259–60
Swan, Robert: accompanies Wilmot in his escape from Worcester 117, 119; hides with Wilmot near Coven 120; settles down at Moseley Hall 125; warns Wilmot to be careful of Gunter’s servant 210–11; retrieves gold coins left at Recton 214; scouts land near Hambledon 223; bids farewell to Charles and Wilmot at Shoreham 230
Swansea 114
Symonds, Mrs 224
Symonds, Thomas 224–5, 259
Syon House, Isleworth (Middlesex) 29
Taaffe, Mary 246
Taaffe, Theobald, 2nd Viscount 238, 246
Talbot, John, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury 80, 91, 103, 105
Tanner, Father Matthias 126
Tattersall, Nicholas 216–17, 222, 228–32, 260
Taunton Castle, Somerset 171
Taylor, Thomas 201
Thomas, Robert 250
Tipton Green, battle of (1644) 118
Tiverton 7
Tombes, Amy 167
Tombes, John 167
Tong 108
Tong Heath 137
Torrington 7–8
Trent House, Dorset (formerly in Somerset) 171–4, 177, 194, 201–2, 203–4, 219, 259
True Informer 69, 71, 80
Tuke, Lady Mary xviii
Tuppon, Thomas 230
Turbeville, Henry 157
Underhill, Mrs 121
Urban VIII, Pope 24
Urry’s Horse 65
Vic, Sir Henry de 246
Victory (ship) 69
Vitruvius 221
Wade, Margaret 194–5
Walker, Richard 103, 104
Walker, William 107, 120, 121, 134
Wall, Thomas 260
Waller, Sir Hardress 198
Walter, Elizabeth 16–17
Walter, Lucy: family background 16–17; character and description 17; as kept woman of important and wealthy men 17–18, 246; affair with Charles 18–19, 20; birth of her son James by Charles 18–19; as embarrassment to Charles in exile 246–7; arrested and detained in the Tower 247; claims that she and Charles married 247–8; returns to London 247; death of 247
Walter, William 16–17
Wariston, Archibald Johnston, Lord 47–8, 51, 57, 262
Warneford, George and Falcon inn at 223
Warrington 76
Warrington Bridge 164
Warwick Castle 241
Weekly Intelligencer 95, 163–4, 191, 206, 207, 240
Wesley, Charles 263
Wesley, John 263
West Hatch, Somerset 204
West Indies 190
Westley, Rev Benjamin 198, 263
Weymouth 198
Whalley 75
Whalley, Commissary General Edward 86
Whiteladies, Brewood Forest 106–10, 111–12, 118, 119, 121, 122, 140, 143–4, 181, 241
Whitelocke, Bulstrode 247
Whitgreave, Alice 155, 159
Whitgreave, Anne 256
Whitgreave, Thomas 256; testimony of Charles’s escape from England xix; agrees to help Charles and Wilmot 123–4, 143, 145–7; wounded and captured at Naseby 123; finds Wilmot waiting for him at Moseley Hall 124; shows Wilmot priest hole 125, 129; hopes John Lane will help hide Wilmot’s horse 134–5; awaits Wilmot and Charles 150–1; scarcely recognises Charles in disguise 151; gives Charles clothes and boots 154; keeps Charles company at Moseley Hall 155–8; bids farewell to Charles 159–60; allowed to live freely after Popish Plot 256
Whittington, Dick 116
Wilde, Dorset 195
William the Conqueror 105
William II, Prince of Orange 27–8
William the Silent 74
Wilmot, Lord Henry: character and description 19, 102 and note, 118, 119, 154, 166, 243; friendship with Charles 19–20, 103, 117, 118, 243; as military veteran 102–3, 118; accompanies Charles to Boscobel House 106; attempts to cut Charles’s hair 109; agrees that London is Charles’s best hope 116; poor relationship with King Charles I 117; supports Charles’s alliance with the Scots 117–18; welcomed at Henrietta Maria’s court in France 117; refuses to wear disguise when escaping 118–19, 166; well-known in the countryside 118; rejects several hiding places 119; finds sanctuary in priest hole at Moseley Hall 120–5, 134–6; unaware that Charles has left Whiteladies 143; encourages Charles to join him at Moseley Hall 144–7; meets up with Charles at Moseley Hall 150–4; collects Charles from Moseley 159–60; journeys to Packington Hall 166; arrives at Abbots Leigh 170–1; reunited with Charles at Trent House 174; arrives in Bridport 200; sent to talk to Robert Phillips 204, 205; discusses with Gunter the possibility of acquiring a boat 210–13; takes the name of ‘Mr Barlow’ 210, 211, 212, 213, 227; shares plate of oysters with Gunter before travelling to Hinton Daubney 214; informed that plan to escape by boat is in place 217; spends day hare-coursing 223; enjoys evening with Thomas Symonds 225; continues to seek help for Royalists near Southampton 226; arranges transfer of money to France 227; arrives in Brighton 227; bids farewell to Gunter and Swan and boards ship for France 230–1; journeys to France on Surprise 231–3, 237; Hyde scoffs at his journey of escape 243–4; joins royal council in Paris 245; given the title of 1st Earl of Rochester 251; instigates and oversees Royalist rebellion in the north 251–2; sent on an embassy to Regensburg 251; use of disguises 251; body removed to Spelsbury church after the Restoration 252; returns to France 252; hidden by Sir Clement Fisher 258; death 252
Wincanton 219
Windsor 165
Windsor Castle 186
Winter, John 166, 171
Wintour, Robert 121
Wolfe, Francis 113–14, 131–3, 151
Wolverhampton 121, 156
Wombourne 106
Wootton 167
Worcester 3, 78, 118, 179, 190, 250
Worcester, battle of (1651) xxi, 180, 193, 206, 241, 260, 265; Charles’s army at 79–80; numbers and morale of Cromwell’s army 80–1; defeat of Derby at Wigan Lane 81–2; arrival of Cromwell and his army 82–3; Royalist setbacks in preceding days 83–4; Charles takes command 85; Royalist lineup 85–7; in the balance 88–90; Cromwell oversees progress of 88; Cromwell’s victory 90–1; aftermath and mopping-up process 92–8, 119, 141, 244; news concerning reaches Royalists abroad 92–4; casualties 94
Worcester Cathedral 85, 179, 185
Wrottesley Woods 106
Wyndham, Anne 171, 173–4, 204, 259
Wyndham, Christabella 171; character and description 6; seduces Charles 6, 250; shoots at Cromwell 7, 171
Wyndham, Sir Edmund 6, 7, 171
Wyndham, Elizabeth 172
Wyndham, Francis: loyalty to the Crown 171–2; made governor of Dunster Castle 172; surrenders to Parliamentary command 172; Charles’s arrival at his home 173–4; decides to scout out likely ports for himself 174–5; believes Lyme Regis to be best port for Charles to leave from 175–7; accompanies Charles to Lyme Regis 194–5; arrives at the George Inn in Bridport 198–9; stays at the George inn, Broad Windsor 200; returns to Trent House 203; rewarded by Charles after the Restoration 259; death of 259
Wyndham, Sir Hugh 171, 201–2
Yarmouth, Norfolk 240
Yates, Elizabeth Penderel 108, 254
Yates, Francis 105, 106, 108, 112, 114, 192, 254
Yates, Francis, of Langley Lawn 112–13, 114, 148, 151, 241, 254
Yates, Margaret 112, 254
York 252
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