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Title: The wanderings of a pen and pencil
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Palmer, F. P. (Francis Paul) Crowquill, Alfred, ill Bissett, Clark Prescott, 1875-1932, former owner. UPB
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Publisher: London : Jeremiah How
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Derbyshire black marble, laid intopanelling of more elaborate work ; and the marble, besides other tracings, isadorned with three subjects in compartments, one in the centre upon eitherside, and the designs, I believe, are copied from original drawings in theBodleian Library. The centre one is the oft-repeated marvel* of the king •the King a wonderful deal too in the royal oak, his pursuers near to him,- * The troops never passed under this tree whilst the king remained in shelter there.An)owl flew out of the tree (say the old grannies), and the rebel captain exclaimed, Theowl loveth not company, and where he hath been no one else may be, and he rode off withhis men to the kings great joy. This is a valuable bit of country hum-fum. 38 WANDERINGS OF A PEN AND PKN< 1L. conspicuous, and the pursuers as jaunty as members of the Melton MowbrayHunt. One group represents the King, mounted upon horseback, in hismean disguise, and escorted by the Penderells and by Giffarde servant,Yates.
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Charles in the Oak —a Compartment of the Chimney-piece in Boscobel House. There is a vast drollery in this group ; you are so reminded of the quaint,clumsy personages in Bunyans Progress; in fact, a better burlesque nevercould be seen, of the rollicking Charles reduced to pitiful condition, andabandoned, or rather confided, to the keeping of these lowly earnest men.The burly loon in front of the kings horse is intended for Richard Penderell,the chief actor, and the letters R. P. are engraven upon his belt, garnishedfor the nonce with a brace of pistols, or something weapon-like, which wemay have mistaken for fire-arms. The King and Penderell arriving at Bos-cobel in the night-time is the subject of the third compartment. Anornamental border encompasses each design; a crown with the sword andolive is the surmount; and Discord, in curious costume, and Puritanism,as lack-a-daisical as you please, form supporters to the circular scroll-work.The one tramples upon the lion, the other upon

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