They were fortunate they had an inside track with the British royal family or they'd simply died.
No, they weren't tricked out of anything ~ and they always felt they were being saved personally by God for some even better purpose.
It never gets too difficult for those who believe God has preserved them, which is what these guys felt.
Any story about the Palatinates and Quakers that fails to note that the Scandinavians who'd been there earlier were evacuated from Lancaster to York is sorely incomplete.