Boscobel


Boscobel

(bŏs`kəbĕl), parish, Shropshire, W central England. The oak in which Charles II supposedly hid after his defeat by Oliver CromwellCromwell, Oliver
, 1599–1658, lord protector of England. Parliamentary General

The son of a gentry family, he entered Cambridge in 1616 but probably left the next year.
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 in the battle of Worcester (1651) was near Boscobel House, which is still standing.