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Identifier: wessex00hollrich (find matches)
Title: Wessex
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holland, Clive, 1866- Tyndale, Walter, 1855-1943
Subjects: Dorset (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Adam & Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Richard Hollyday acted as guide, and endeavouredto reach the New Forest by way of Cranborne Chase,and the more deserted roads of that part of the country.At the Woodyates Inn, about ten miles from Shaftes-bury, the Duke disguised himself as a shepherd ; andthen, after turning their horses loose and hidingsaddles and bridles, the small party of fugitivesproceeded eastward on foot. Meanwhile Lord Lumley, who was posted withtroops at Ringwood, heard of the defeat at Sedgemoorand the flight of the Duke. He promptly sent off^numbers of scouts in all directions, with the result that,early in the morning of July 7, a party of these,riding near Holt Lodge, a few miles distant fromWimborne, saw and surprised at the cross-roads twostrangers, and arrested them as suspects. They provedto be Lord Grey and Hollyday, the guide. The scent had thus become hot, and Sir WilliamPortman, being apprised of the fact, sent his followersto aid in scouring the surrounding district, in the hope 34 ON THE STOUR
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Monmouths Capture of capturing the Duke himself. A poor woman namedAmy or Anna Farrant directed Lord Lumley to ahedge over which she stated she had recently seen twomen escape. In the immediate neighbourhood therewas much enclosed ground, overgrown by bracken andsmall trees. This was surrounded by a cordon oftroopers and of Sir William Portmans followers, andthe search for the fugitive began in systematic earnest,it having been agreed between Lord Lumley and SirWilliam that, in the event of the discovery and captureof the Duke, the blood-money, amounting to;^5000 for his taking alive or dead, should be dividedbetween their respective followers. It is a notable fact that the family of Farrants, afterthe betrayal, speedily fell into extreme poverty anddied out, the cottage in which Amy Farrant livedfalling into decay and having an evil reputation through-out the neighbourhood—a judgment, many thought,upon the family for betraying the unfortunate Duke. The Duke and Busse, one of his fo

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