On the morning of 16 September Charles and Lane set out and reached the Manor House, Castle Cary. The next day they reached Trent in Somerset (now in Dorset). They stayed at Trent House, the home of Colonel Francis Wyndham, another Royalist officer. The King spent the next few days hiding at Trent whilst Wyndham and Wilmot attempted to find a ship from Lyme Regis or Weymouth. While at Trent that the King witnessed the local villagers celebrating, believing that he had been killed at Worcester. On 18 September Jane Lane and Lascelles returned home.