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Of all the sovereigns of Britain, King Charles II seems most inextricably tied to our family's history. While Prince Charles was still in exile after his father's execution, in the time frame of his departure for Scotland (2 June 1650), Richard Lee the Founder hired a Dutch Vessel and went to Breda in Netherlands where he surrendered Virginia governor Berkeley's commission for the government of the province to the exiled prince. This act was recorded in the 1682 volume "Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam" by John Gibbon. In Scotland he was crowned Charles II at Scone, whereupon he obtained military support with intent to assault Cromwell's forces and drive them from power. Among his troops were several Munros: Hugh, John, Robert and William. After King Charles' defeat at the Battle of Worcester in September of 1651, these Munro kinsmen were placed upon a ship bound for New England as exiled political prisoners by Cromwell's forces. John Munro, the emigrant was the progenitor of the American Munro family noted in this web page. After King Charles' failed attempt to seize power, late in September, he fled to the south coast of England where he took up refuge in "Coaxden Hall" the manor home of the Cogan family in Dorsetshire. Suggested Reading: "Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Vol. III, " ed. Frederic Weaver, pp. 306-313.
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