24 Mistress Jane Lane. 
possessed all kinds of good qualities, and was also sacred to the god 
Thor, and was called the blessed thistle, and expelled evil demons, 
and further that there was an Order of the Thistle—which, perhaps, 
she hoped to merit—she finally decided upon dosing the 
poor boy with a earduus, or thistle posset, and looking 
very carefully after him. History does not mention, as far as I have 
yet been able to discover, whether the King took the carduus posset 
or not. Sack posset is very well in its way—a posset made of thin 
beer and milk may serve its purpose—but as for Margaret’s carduus 
posset I doubt if the King was pleased with it. Curiously enough 
I possess in an old MS. receipt book a prescription which is headed 
‘a restorative from Miss Norton.” It is not exactly like the famous 
posset administered by Mistress Norton’s maid, but it may very 
possibly have been handed down from the Norton family, who, 
through the Trenchards, were connected with the Penruddockes. 
Boscobel. 
(1st) Anna, d. of Sir George=Sir George Trenchard,=(2nd) Jane, d. of Hugh 
Speke, of White Lacking- of Wolverton, Dorset. Bamfield, and widow 
ton, Co. Somerset, Knighted Eliz., 1588. et Thomas Chafin, of 
olke. 
Grace.=Col. William Arundel.—John Freke, son of 
Sydenham, Sir Thos. Freke, 
of Winford of Shrewton, 
Eagle, Dorset. 
Arundel Freke,=John Penruddocke, 
b. 1610; et. son of Sir John 
35 in 1651. Penruddocke, of 
Compton. 
aperied Penruddocke. 
Here is an actual prescription in which the thistle is introduced, 
ol ue. at * Aqua Lactis alexiteria. 
ahd a fi Meadow sweet 
ceipts, Carduus Benedictus six handfulls, 
1677. Goat’s Rue 
Mint 
Common Wormwood } five handfalle. 
Rue three handfulls, 
Angelica two handfulls. 
Bruise, and add three gallons of new milk. Mix, and distil in a 
common still,” 
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