During the
first battle of the English Civil war, at Edgehill, the parliamentarians came
very close to capturing and taking prisoner, the Prince of Wales, the future
Charles II. Prince James who was with his older brother gives this account of
the heir to the throne’s close shave with destiny:
“Sir Will
Howard went of with the prince and myself and we had not gone above musket-shot
off from the place when we saw a body of horse advancing directly towards us
from the left hand of the King’s foot; upon which sending to see what they
were, and finding them to be the enemy, we drew behind a little barn not far
distant from them, which was encompassed by a hedge.
In this
barn several of the King’s wounded men were there dressing, but the enemy
observing the King’ men, to be within the enclosure, drew back immediately
without engaging them, by which means the Prince and Duke escaped the evident
danger of being taken; for had they charged our small party they could not have
failed of beating them.”
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