After much discussion, the party agreed that it would be best to make for Southampton.

The road thither was less frequented than that leading to London, and there were fewer towns to be passed, and less chance of interruption.

Mr.Jervoise had brought with him a valise and suit of clothes for Sir Marmaduke, of sober cut and fashion.

They avoided all large towns and, at the places where they put up, represented themselves as traders travelling from the Midlands to the southern coast, and they arrived at Southampton without having excited the smallest suspicion.

Indeed, throughout the journey, they had heard no word of the affray near Chapel le Frith, and knew, therefore, that the news had not travelled as fast as they had.
At Southampton, however, they had scarcely put up at an inn when the landlord said: "I suppose, gentlemen, they are talking of nothing else, in London, but the rescue of a desperate Jacobite by his friends.