As she departed hir house called the Barbican, betwixt foure and fiue of the clocke in the morning, with hir companie and baggage, one Atkinson an herald, kéeper of hir house,The duches [...] with hir com|panie depar|ted the realme. hearing noise about the house, rose and came foorth with a torch in his hand as she was yet issuing out of the gate: wherewith being amazed, she was forced to leaue a male with necessaries for hir yoong daughter, & a milkepot with milke in the same gatehouse, commanding all hir seruants to spéed them before awaie to Lion keie: and taking with hir onelie the two women and hir child, so soone as she was out of hir owne house,The maner o [...] the duchesse flieng out of hir house. per|ceiuing the herald to follow, she slept in at Garter|house hard by. The herald comming out of the du|chesse house, and séeing no bodie stirring, not assured (though by the male suspecting) that she was depar|ted, returned in: and while he staied ransacking par|cels left in the male, the duchesse issued into the stréet, and proceeded in hir iournie, he knowing the place onelie by name where she should take hir boat, but not the waie thither, nor none with hir. Likewise hir seruants hauing diuided themselues, none but one knew the waie to the said keie.

So she apparelled like a meane merchants wife, and the rest like meane seruants, walking in the stréets vnknown, she tooke the way that led to Fins|burie EEBO page image 1144 field, and the others walked the citie stréets as they laie open before them, till by chance more than discretion, they met all suddenlie together a lit|tle within Moore gate, from whence they passed di|rectlie to Lion keie,The duchesse with hir com|panie taketh [...]rge. and there tooke barge in a mor|ning so mistie, that the stearesman was loth to lanch out, but that they vrged him. So soone as the daie permitted, the councell was informed of hir depar|ture, and some of them came foorthwith to hir house to inquire of the maner thereof,Persute after the duchesse. and tooke an inuen|tarie of hir goods, besides further order deuised for search and watch to apprehend and staie hir. The same of hir departure reached to Leigh, a towne at the lands end, before hir approching thither. By Leigh dwelt one Gosling a merchant of London, an old ac|quaintance of Cranwels, whither the said Cranwell brought the duchesse, naming hir mistresse White, the daughter of master Gosling,The duchesse [...] in M. Goslings house by Leigh, vnder the name of h [...]s daughter. for such a daughter he had which neuer was in that countrie. There she reposed hir, and made new garments for hir daugh|ter, hauing lost hir owne in the male at Barbican.

When the time came that she should take ship, be|ing constreined that night to lie at an inne in Leigh (where she was againe almost bewraied) yet not|withstanding by Gods good working she escaping that hazzard, at length as the tide and wind did serue, they went aboord,The hard ad| [...]nture of the [...]chesse vpon [...] seas. and being carried twise into the seas, almost into the coast of Zeland, by contrarie wind were driuen to the place from whence they came. And at the last recuile, certeine persons came to the shore, suspecting she was within that ship: yet hauing examined one of hir companie that was one land for fresh Achates, and finding by the simplicitie of his tale, onelie the appearance of a meane mer|chants wife to be a shipboord, he ceased anie further search. To be short, so soone as the duchesse had landed in Brabant,The duchesse landed in Brabant. [...]. Bertie [...] the du|chesse his wife armed at Santon. she and hir women were apparelled like the women of Netherland with hukes, and so she and hir husband tooke their iournie towards Cleueland, and being arriued at a towne therin called Santon, tooke a house there, vntill they might further deuise of some sure place where to settle themselues.