Identifier: oldenglandpictor02knig (find matches)
Title: Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic sites
Publisher: London : C. Knight
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e, the Venetian ambassadorunwittingly enabled them to leave London, by sending down hiscoach to Dover to meet his brother. Through the assistance of oneof his servants, the earl, having been dressed in livery, was conveyedto that place among the ambassadors retinue. At Dover heembarked for Calais, and reached the French coast in safety in soshort a time, that, the captain, who knew nothing of his passengers,remarked, that if they had been flying for their lives the wind couldnot have served them better. The Earl of Wintoun also escapedfrom the Tower, but as there does not seem to hive been anydesire to act upon the sentence passed against him after his trial,the escape itself may have been connived at, to rid the governmentof difficulty. We shall not here follow any further the fortunes of the OldPretender, but take up the account of the movements made on thepart of his family, when his son Charles Edward came forward asthe leader, in the years 1744-1745. After the destruction by lira
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