ROYAL Oak, a fair spreading tree at Boscobel, in the parish of Donnington in Staffordshire, the boughs of which were once covered with ivy; in the thick of which King Charles II. sat in the day-time with Colonel Careless, 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. Its poor remains are now fenced in with a handsome wall, with this inscription in gold letters: Felicissimum arborum quam in asylum potentissimi regis Caroli II. Deus op. max. per quem reges regnant, hic crescere voluit, &c.