The King's Secrets - A Brief History

Cromwell's men had cast a wide net around the battle, and they assumed that the king would be among the many dead bodies left when the fighting was over. But by some miracle or brilliant stroke of luck, charles had escaped. And so the would be king spent the next six weeks weaving through the english countryside in an increasingly perilous series of near captures. The king was six foot two at a time when the height of the average englishman was closer to five foot six. He had an astonishing price on his head, a thousand pounds. One of the brothers, richard, cut the king's hair so that it was short on top and long at the side, in the