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In John Evelyn's 1775 opus on Britain's trees, Sylva, he states that if a bastard child is born under the shade of an oak tree, the mother and child will be forgiven.
In John Evelyn's 1775 opus on Britain's trees, Sylva, he states that if a bastard child is born under the shade of an oak tree, the mother and child will be forgiven.