William Pendrill
17th-century English royalist
About William Pendrill
William Pendrill was an English and British.
William Pendrill (died 1705) was a Roman Catholic and royalist in the English Civil War.
Pendrill and his five brothers were the occupants of Boscobel House in Shropshire where in 1651 they secreted the defeated King Charles II in an oak tree after the Battle of Worcester. The tree became known as the Royal Oak.
He is remembered in the Penderel's Oak public house in London's High Holborn.
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17th-century English royalist
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