a fair spreading tree at Boscoel, 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 daytime with Colonel Careless, and in the night lodged in Boscoel House. 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 were 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.