by a Norman arch and handsome door-entrance. When I was there I was told that it was possessed by the Brewood Roman Catholic establishment.

I have to record here, with great pleasure, the kindness of Josiah Spode, Esq., J.P., of Hawksyard Hall, Mavesyn-Ridware, in presenting me with photographs taken by himself, of Boscobel House, Moseley Hall, Bentley Hall as it was in 1651, and the White Ladies at that date. This gentleman devotes much time to the polite arts, and music. He was the chief contributor to the restoration of the church in his parish, and is principal benefactor to the poor in that neighbourhood.

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Mr. James Birch, residing at Pearse Hay Farm, near Boscobel House, procured me permission to visit it. It belonged to Miss Evans, and Mr. Birch kindly went with me, which was a great favour, as he knew well how to describe the interior and exterior.

The whole was kept intact just as it was when the King was there; viz., the concealment rooms and holes, but the octagon stone table had been divided, and part of it placed under foot in the porch, and part used as an upper step of a path, leading to the wicket between the garden and the field, in which the famous oak stood.

In the house there were portraits of the King over the chimney piece, and in an adjoining room one of Cromwell.

I made two visits to Moseley Hall, Bushbury. The first being a hurried one, on the second I stayed all day. I then asked Mr. Wiggin,* the tenant, where Mr. Moseley, the owner, lived, and he said at Leamington, but that he was then travelling on the Continent.

* Mr. Wiggin is the son of a farmer who lived between Kidderminster and Alveley. Before living at Moseley he was farm bailiff to Mr. Joseph Wright, of Park Farm, Trimpley Green, near Bewdley. Mr. Wright and I were fellow-guardians for the Kidderminster Union at that time, and fellow Relators in the Grammar School Chancery suit, at that town. Mr. Wiggin became the husband of one of Mr. Wright's daughters, and therefore, as an old acquaintance, he welcomed me warmly at Moseley Hall.

The reason for my inquiring was because I wished to dedicate my Drama, "Charles the Second," to him. I therefore wrote to his Lady, who gained me a favourable answer from abroad. The dedication was as follows:

TO HENRY WHITGREAVE, ESQ.,

OF MOSELEY.

TO YOU, SIR, I BEG TO DEDICATE THIS VOLUME, INASMUCH AS YOU POSSESS THE ESTATE UPON WHICH MOSELEY HALL STILL STANDS; THE HALL IN WHICH KING CHARLES THE SECOND MET WITH SUCH FAITHFUL SYMPATHY AND CARE AT THE HANDS OF YOUR DIRECT ANCESTOR AND HIS NEIGHBOURS.

TO LOOK UNFORTUNATE KING MUST BE A GREAT GRATIFICATION TO YOU; AND I BEG TO ASSURE YOU, THAT TO RECORD THEM IN THIS PRODUCTION, HAS BEEN A GREAT PLEASURE TO ME.

BACK то SUCH FAITHFULNESS AND LOVE то THE

HOPING THAT LONG LIFE AND HEALTH WILL BE YOURS,

I BEG, SIR, TO REMAIN,

YOURS VERY FAITHFULLY,

GEORGE GRIFFITH.

Mrs. Whitgreave ordered ten copies of the Drama; and in acknowledging their arrival at Newbold House, Leamington, wrote as follows:

Sir,

Leamington, Nov. 29, 1867.

As Mr. Whitgreave is from home I have much pleasure in sending you a cheque for £1 5s. 2d. Shall be glad to hear that the Drama, which you have been good enough to dedicate to him, has proved a remunerative undertaking to yourself. M. WHITGREAVE.

Newbold House, Friday.

In this Drama there is a soliloquy appropriated to the Mr. Whitgreave of Charles the Second's time, which I reprint on the back of the plan of the Battle of Worcester. In all. I have heard from his successors he was a very amiable man.

Moseley Hall at one time belonged to the famous Lady Godiva, her husband was Leofric, Earl of Mercia; this was before the Conquest. The ancient name was Mollesley. (See Rev. Stebbing Shaw's History of Staffordshire, Vol. ii. p. 183.)