The wanderings of a pen and pencil . ses weresometimes held in the open air. Nothing strange in this ! witness the customobserved by the Saxon kings, of holding court in the south porch of thechurch of the parish. Edward the First, says a local historian of recentdate, held a great council under the shade of an immense oak, the well-guarded trunk of which is still standing, at the corner of Clipstone Park, onthe side of the road between Mansfield and Edwinstowe, and is famousthrough all the country as the Parliament Oak. The event is dated byhistorians 1290, as consequent on some information t
The wanderings of a pen and pencil . ses weresometimes held in the open air. Nothing strange in this ! witness the customobserved by the Saxon kings, of holding court in the south porch of thechurch of the parish. Edward the First, says a local historian of recentdate, held a great council under the shade of an immense oak, the well-guarded trunk of which is still standing, at the corner of Clipstone Park, onthe side of the road between Mansfield and Edwinstowe, and is famousthrough all the country as the Parliament Oak. The event is dated byhistorians 1290, as consequent on some information the king received whilehunting in the forest, of a revolt of the newly-conquered Welsh, againstwhom he immediately took proceedings. The splendid ruin here sketchedhas some portions of sound timber. The sapless flakes from the interiorare durable. It furnishes green boughs. Its girth is 28 feet 6 inches. Thou wert a bauble once — a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay. THE PARLIAMENT OAK. 361 1 iil r*>. Parliament Oak. Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And all thy embryo vastness, at a gulp. Time made thee what thou wert — King of the Woods ! And Time hath made thee what thou art—a cave For owls to roost in. Farewell to the oaks of Sherwood, time-honoured and romantic ! Rogerde Hovedon, speaking of Richard I., says: He set out to see the Sherwoodforests, which he had never seen, and they charmed him exceedingly. Ohthou man of brawn and thongy sinews, better perhaps had it been for theeto cleave the wild tree with the peaceful axe, than to revel in blood, and hewdown paynims in the Syrian field! When we paid our bill to Amos atClipstone, there was a look of woful disappointment. Visitors had beensummoned to meet our merry faces at the Hare and Hounds. Fate bade us 3 A 362 WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PENCIL. proceed and leave them in the clouds of
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