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" I) went, and carried up with us some victuals for the whole day, viz. bread, cheese, small beer, and nothing else, and got up into a great oak, that had been lopt some three or four years before, and being grown out again, very bushy and thick, could... "
The British Gazetteer, Political, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, and Historical ... - Page 346
by Benjamin Clarke - 1852
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The scrinium

Rebecca Edridge - 1822 - 758 pages
...cheese, small beer, and nothing else, and got up into a great oak, that had been lopt some three or four years before, and being grown out again, very bushy and thick, could not be seen through, and here we staid all day, &c. " Memorandum, — that while we were in this tree, we see soldiers going up and...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 14

Books - 1826 - 382 pages
...cheese, small beer, and nothing else, and got up into a great oak, that had been lopt some three or four years before, and being grown out again, very bushy and thick, could not be seen through, and here we staid all the day. I having, in the mean time, sent Penderell's brother to Mr. Pitchcroft's, to...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 14

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1826 - 384 pages
...cheese, small beer, and nothing else, and got up into a great oak, that had been lopt some three or four years before, and being grown out again, very bushy and thick, could not be seen through, and here we staid all the day. I having, in the mean time, sent Penderell's brother to Mr. Pitchcroft's, to...
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The parliamentary gazetteer of England and Wales. 4 vols. [bound in 12 pt ...

England - 1840 - 248 pages
...cheese, small beer, and nothing else, and got up into a great oak that had been lopt some three or four years before, and being grown out again, very bushy and thick, could not be seen through, and here we staid all the day. 1 having, in the mean time, sent Penderell's brother to Mr. Pitchcroft's, (Whitgreave?)...
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Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the ..., Volume 10

Percy Society - English literature - 1844 - 538 pages
...nothing else — and got up into the great oak in question, which had been lopped some three or four years before, and being grown out again very bushy and thick, could not be seen through." By Charles's own account, it appears that he attended Mrs. Lane, " in a grey cloth suit, as a serving...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, Volume 2

Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1846 - 602 pages
...small beer, and nothing else, and got up into a great oak, that had been lopped some three or four years before, and being grown out again, very bushy and thick, could not be seen through, and here we staid all the day. I having, in the meantime, sent Penderell's brother to Mr. Pitchcroft's, to know...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...small beer, and nothing else, and got up into a great oak, that had been lopped some three or four years before, and being grown out again very bushy and thick, could not be seen through, and here we stayed all the day. I having, in the meantime, sent Penderell's brother to Mr. Pitchcroft's, to...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 68

Electronic journals - 1883 - 676 pages
...Charles himself distinctly stated that he " got up into a great oak that had been lopt some three or four years before, and being grown out again very bushy and thick could not be seen through." The present Boscobel oak has never been polled; and thus, it seems to me, the whole question is disposed...
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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Volume 2

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 pages
...small beer, and nothing else, and got up into a great oak, that had been lopped some three or four years before, and being grown out again very bushy and thick, could not be seen through, and here we stayed all the day. I having, in the mean time, sent Penderell's brother to Air. Pitchcroft's, to...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second

Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Great Britain - 1853 - 568 pages
...small beer, and nothing else, and got up into a great oak, that had been lopped some three or four years before, and being grown out again, very bushy and thick, could not be seen through, and here we staid all the day. I having, in the meantime, sent Penderell's brother to Mr. Pitchcroft's, to know...
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