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At Worcester on Wednesday, September 3rd, the Roundheads under Oliver Cromwell routed Charles II and his Scots. The young king – he was twenty-one – slipped away on horseback with a few trusted companions
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Shropshire, 40 miles from Worcester
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George Penderel
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disguised as a simple woodman
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Boscobel House, another Giffard family house, where the eldest of the Penderels, William, was in charge
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at Shoreham on October 15th he found a brig which smuggled him away to France
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During the escape he had been recognised repeatedly, but despite a high price on his head was never given away and the evidence is that he behaved with cheerfulness, courage and the most faultless courtesy throughout
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oak-apple day celebrations
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the heir to the throne fighting alongside his father during the early years of a brutal civil war that tore the nation apart
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Charles’ chief protector Lord Wilmot
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the Penderel family, who risked their lives when the penalty for concealing the king was death
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the king could not have evaded the parliamentarians without the help of numerous ordinary men and women
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fervour of regicides
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It was often in the priest holes of their country houses that Charles sought sanctuary as he moved around England
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No study of the life of Charles would be complete without an account of his time concealed within the branches of the Boscobel oak tree with Major William Careless
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an episode in British history that deserves to be better known
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