Excerpt from A Royal Cavalier: The Romance of Rupert, Prince Palatine Towards the end of August in the year 1636, a heavy chariot escorted by a troop of some fifty serving men, made its slow way along the road leading from Cuddesden to Oxford. It was a queer, oblong-shaped vehicle with a domed roof a leather screen was pulled across the doorway and curtains of a sober hue were drawn along the open sides of the chariot to screen its occupants from the public gaze. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.