_Mistletoe_ (Vol. ii., p. 418.; Vol. iii., pp. 192. 226. 396. 462.).--There
is in the parish of Staveley, Derbyshire, a solitary mansion called the
Hagg, erected by Sir Peter Frescheville, in what was at that time a park of
considerable extent, for a hunting lodge, when age and infirmity prevented
him from otherwise enjoying the pleasures of the chase. In one of
Colepeper's MSS. at the British Museum, there is the following curious
notice of this house:
"This is the Parke House which Sir Peter Frescheville, in his will,
16th March, 1632, calls my new Lodge in Staveley Parke. Heare my Lord
Frescheville did live, and heare growes _the famous mistleto tree, the
only oake in England that bears mistleto_, which florished at my deare
Wife's birth, who was born heare."
I presume it is the same which is referred to in the following letter
addressed by the Countess of Danby to Mrs. Colepeper; it is without date,
but was written between 1663 and 1682:
"Dear Cosen.--Pray if you have any of the miselto of yo^r father's oke,
oblidge me so far as to send sum of it to