6 Mistress Jane Lane. 
one hand and meat in the other. There is a narrow winding lane 
Proceedings near what is called Merton Hill, through which it is 
Nicaea said Charles journeyed on his way to Boscobel, and 
ntiquarian : : 3 
Society, a cottage fireplace, cut in the solid rock, is shown 
May, 1882. Where local tradition says he halted and refreshed 
himself. One of the officers of the King’s army writes: “ In the 
Parliamentary Hist. night we kept close together, yet some fell 
of England, vol. xx., : ; : ; 
_p. 67. asleep on their horses; or, if their horses staid 
behind, we might hear by their cries what the bloody country people 
were doing with them.” The same officer in his letter says: “ What 
became of His Majesty after the Battle of Worcester I know not: 
God preserve him, for certainly a more gallant Prince was never 
born.” We know from good authority where the King was. His 
guide, Charles Giffard, conducted him to a house belonging to him, 
called White Ladies—in the parish of Tong, three and a-half miles 
from Shifnal railway station—twenty-six miles from Worcester, and 
here for precaution’s sake both he and his good horse were taken 
into the great hall, and the doors closed upon them. Here we first 
meet with the faithful Penderels George was a servant 
ee in the house, John a kind of woodman there: William, 
the eldest, and his wife, caretakers at Boscobel: Richard (Trusty 
Dick)! lived at Hobbal Grange with his old mother: and Humphrey 
at the mill at White Ladies. A certain Bartholomew Martin is 
Sack; now called despatched by Mr. Gifford to summon William 
“Canary”; much Penderel, and in the meantime Mrs. Gifford 
improved in bot- ‘ 
tle. causes sack and biscuits to be served to each of 
her weary guests. If the sack was made into a posset here is the 
Compton MS. receipt: “Beat the yokes and whites of ten eggs 
receipts, 1677. together, strain them into a quart of cream, season 
Household 
Companion, : js ; 
1696. pint of canary. Stir well and pour in a basin—set 
over chafing dish of coals; stir till it is indifferently thick, then 
with nutmeg, cinnamon and sugar. Put to this a 
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1In Daniel Wright’s Country Dances, 1, 32, the tune of “ When the King 
enjoys his own again” is called “Trusty Dick,” which was the name the King 
gave to Richard Penderel. - 
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