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EEV. DR. GEE FAJrOITS TREES IN HERTEORDSHIRE. 



Noting the late season of the year, Nov. 17th, at -which this 

 hardy Queen had seemingly sat out of doors, I hope that it will 

 not be impertinent of me to correct here a mistake of which I have 

 certainly heard a young lady guilty with regard to another famous 

 oak tree. " Ah ! " said an accomplished fair one to me on a chilly 

 May morning, when the spring was very backward, "King Charles 

 could hardly have been hidden in the oak on the 29th of this May." 





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No, my dear miss, nor was he so hidden on the 29th of any May. 

 The Battle of Worcester, as the Battle of Dunbar — Cromwell's two 

 crowning mercies — was fought on Sept. 3rd, his dying day, and said 

 to be also his birthday until Mr. Carlyle and others produced the 

 entry showing that he was born and christened in St. John's parish, 

 Huntingdon, in April, 1599. The entry into London took place 

 on Charles's own birthday, May 29th, and then, in memory of the 



