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The Proscribed Royalist 1651 (1853) is a painting by John Everett Millais which depicts a young Puritan woman protecting a fleeing Royalist after the Battle of Worcester in 1651 the decisive defeat of Charles II by Oliver Cromwell. The Royalist is hiding in a hollow tree a reference to a famous incident in which Charles himself hid in a tree to escape from his pursuers.
