fair spreading tree at Boscobel, in the parish of Donnington in Staffordshire, the boughs whereof were once covered with ivy; in the thick of which king Charles II. sat in the day-time with colonel Carelefs, and in the night lodged in Boscobel house; so that they are mistaken who speak of it as an old hollow oak; it being then a gay flourishing tree, surrounded with many more. The poor remains thereof are now fenced in with a handsome wall, with this inscription in gold letters: Felicifimam arborum quam in asylum potentiissimi regis Caroli II. Deus op. max. per quem reges regnant, hic crecere voluit, &c.

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