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Title: Boscobel : or, The history of His Sacred Majesties most miraculous preservation after the Battle of Worcester 3 September 1651, introducd by an exact relation of that battle
Year: 1660 (1660s)
Authors: Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679
Subjects: Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685
Publisher: London Printed for H. Seile
Contributing Library: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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friend, atWolverhampton, who not only procured him aPafs from fome of the Rebel Commanderskj a difguifed name to goe to London^ but fur- niilid 5 4 TheHi^oryof niflid him with money for his journey, bymcanes whereof he got fafc thither, and fromthence into HolUnd^ where he brought thefirft happy news of His Majefiies fafety to HisHoyal ftfier, the Pritigfs of Omnge. This Col. William Carlts was born at Brom-hdl in Staffordjhire^ within two miles of Bo(-cebel^ of good Parentage, is a Perfon of ap-proved valor, and was engagd all along in thefirft war for His late Majejij^ of happy memo-ry 5 and fince His Death has been no lefs activefor His Majefly that now is 5 for which and hisparticular fervice and fidelity before mentio-ned, His Majefty has been pleafed by LettersPatents under the Great Seal oi England togive him, by the name of William Carl o s(which in Spanifh figmfies C^^r/j) this veryhonorable Goat of Armes, in perpetuam retmemoriam, as tis expreffed in the Letters Pa-tents. He
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