Possible Clues:

• Fugitive starts to seek king's protection? Sounds rather like it
• Person who outs himself?
• Point to perceive about top fugitive
• Absconder, fugitive
• Fugitive beginning to eat by headland in Kent
• Head in certain direction as prisoner on the loose
• One who's broken out of confinement
• One who gets away
• One running
• One flying from African province into Eastern home counties