She had at last to be bought off or bribed to leave.
The scene now shifts with bewildering frequency; nor is it easy to trace the Shelleys in their rapid flight.

About the 21st of April, they settled for a short time at Nantgwilt, near Rhayader, in North Wales.
Ere long we find them at Lynmouth, on the Somersetshire coast.

Here Shelley continued his political propaganda, by circulating the "Declaration of Rights", whereof mention has already been made.

It was, as Mr.W.M.Rossetti first pointed out, a manifesto concerning the ends of government and the rights of man,--framed in imitation of two similar French Revolutionary documents, issued by the Constituent Assembly in August, 1789, and by Robespierre in April, 1793.

(Reprinted in McCarthy, page 324.) Shelley used to seal this pamphlet in bottles and set it afloat upon the sea, hoping perhaps that after this wise it would traverse St.George's Channel and reach the sacred soil of Erin.