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Title: True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
Pictures and Stories for Little Folk
Author: Anonymous
Release Date: July 16, 2007 [EBook #22080]
Language: English
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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King Charles in Hiding
The Royal Oak
Contents
There is in Shropshire a fine oak-tree which the country people there call the Royal Oak
. They say it is the great-grandson, or perhaps the great-great-grandson of another fine old oak, which more than two hundred years ago stood on the same spot, and served once as a shelter to an English king. This king was Charles II, the son of the unlucky Charles I who had his head cut off by his subjects because he was a weak and selfish ruler.
On the very day on which that unhappy king lost his head, the Parliament passed a law forbidding anyone to make his son, Prince Charles of Wales, or any other person, king of England. But the Scottish people did not obey this law. They persuaded the young prince to sign a paper, solemnly promising to rule the country as they wished; then they crowned him king. As soon as the Parliament heard of this they sent Cromwell and
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