Boscobel or the Royal Oak
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH.
AUTHOR OF “THE TOWER OF LONDON,” &c.
ILLUSTRATED.
In that fair part where the rich Salop gains
An ample view o’er all the Western plains,
A grove appears which Boscobel they name,
Not known to maps; a grove of scanty fame.
And yet henceforth no celebrated shade
Of all the British groves shall be more glorious made.
Cowley’s Sylva. Book VI.
INSCRIBED
TO THE MEMORY OF MY OLD FRIEND,
JOHN HUGHES, Esq.,
OF
DONNINGTON HOUSE, BERKS,
EDITOR OF
The “Boscobel Tracts,”
SON OF
MRS. HUGHES, OF KINGSTON LISLE,
FATHER OF
THOMAS HUGHES, M.P.