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[Figure: Charles ye. 2d. was proclaymed King of great Britain France & Ireland at Worcester. 23d Aug: 1651.

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Boscobel: OR, THE HISTORY OF HIS Sacred Majesties Most miraculous Preservation After the Battle of WORCESTER, 3. Sept. 1651.

JOEL. 1. 2.

Hear this ye Old men, and give ear all ye Inhabitants of the Land: Has this been in your dayes, or in the dayes of your Fathers?

LONDON: Printed for Henry Seile, Stationer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1660.


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TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

SIR,
AMong the many Addresses, which every day offers Your Sacred Majesty, This humbly hopes Your particular gracious Acceptance; since it has no other ambition, then faithfully to represent to Your Majesty, and, by Your Royal permission, to all the world, the History of those miraculous Providences that preserv'd You in the Battle of Worcester, conceal'd You in the Wilderness at Boscobel, and led You on Your way towards a Land, where You might safely expect the returning favours of Heaven; which now, after so long a tryal, have graciously heard our Prayers, and abundantly crown'd Your Patience.

And, as in the conduct of a great part of this greatest Affair, it pleased God (the more to endear his mercies) to make choice of many very little, though fit
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Instruments: So has my weakness, by this happy President, been encourag'd, to hope it not unsuitable for me to relate, what the wisest King thought proper for them to act; wherein yet I humbly beg Your Majesties pardon, being conscious to my self of my utter incapacity to expresse, either Your unparallel'd Valour in the day of Contending, or (which is a vertue far less usual for Kings) Your strong and even Mind in the time of Your Sufferings.

From which sublime Endowments of Your most Heroick Majesty I derive these comforts to my self, That whoever undertakes to reach at Your Perfections, must fall short as well as I, though not so much: And while I depend on Your Royal Clemency more than others, I am more obliged to be

Your Majesties Most Loyal Subject, AND Most Humble Servant, Tho. Blount.


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