His resources were exhausted, his friends had disappeared, his towns and castles were taken, and, at last, about eight years after his coronation at Winchester as monarch of the most powerful of the Saxon kingdoms, he found himself reduced to the very last extreme of destitution and distress.
[Footnote 1: For an account of Henrietta's adventures and sufferings at Exeter, see the History of Charles II., chap.

iii].