“Dame Joan was the wife of William Penderell, one of the five brethren who, at the time of the King’s escape, lived at Boscobel, then rather a new house. In the ‘Harleian Miscellany’ (8vo., edit. 1810, vol. vi., p. 251) it will be seen that William’s wife ‘stripped off the stockings, cut the blisters, and washed the feet of the King,’ after his night’s march from Madeley, in company with Richard Penderell (p. 251), and that whilst the King and Colonel Carless were in the oak, William and his wife Joan were on the watch, still freaking up and down, and she commonly near the place with a nut hook in her hand, gathering up sticks (p. 252), and when Charles awoke from his nap in the oak, ‘very hungary,’ and wished he had something to eat, the Colonel plucked out of his pocket a good luncheon of bread and cheese, which Joan Penderell had given him for provant that day.” OLD FAMILY NAMES. It is interesting to notice that as early as 1694 many names of old Madeley families occur. Ashwood, Easthope, Brooke, Lloyd, Smytheman, Bowdler, Glazebrook, Boden, Bartlam, Hodgkiss, occur from 1689 to 1711, either as proprietors, or collectors of the Poll tax, Land tax, Window tax, or the tax on Births, &c. The following were holders of the 2073 acres mentioned on p. 58:— Tenants’ Names. Quantity. Yearly Value. A. R. P. £ s. d. Demesne Lands 547 2 39 294 3 2 Mr. Purcell 256 0 11 129 0 1 Mr. Heatherley 149 2 28 87 17 6 Mr. Wm Ashwood 111 9 24 72 11 11 Mr. Twyford 109 1 33 45 9 5 W. Ashwood, Ground 91 1 39 5 2 6 Stanley’s Old Park 76 3 15 24 2 6 land Fra. Knight’s Ten., 38 0 36 13 14 9 and Old Park Lands Duddell’s Ten. and 21 2 25 6 13 10 do. Mrs. Webb 46 3 13 23 7 3 Widdow Cooper 31 2 16 11 18 0 Mrs. Smitheman 38 3 12 22 5 2 Audley Bowdler 118 0 11 54 18 5 Thos. Roberts 7 1 14 4 0 9 Mr. Farmer 112 2 31 46 3 2 Giles Goodman 27 0 13 14 5 2 Eliz. Garbett 10 3 39 6 6 5 Mrs. Evans 7 2 17 5 1 10 Fra. Glazebrooke 9 3 22 6 15 2 Jno.