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Show 152 A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XXX. in (orthe Tree of 3 thoufand years) a certain Tree call'd jennich lls enu aeat . is the City Kien , ee the Province of Such neer r one onelybranch of it, without Sheep 200 sd d eee Ne perceiv' byunde thofe who approch its And to to of another in ts I roUneGG clude with yet a greater wonder,ftupendioufly vatt , as fonegae e is fo Chekiang whofe amplitud omit the ftrange » me ie perfons can hardly embrace : not to latelyin Wefiphalia , “ ereo = dible bulk of fome Oaks ftanding another rca hic i ee and , ferv'd both for a Caftle and Fort report) 30 foot er i in height 130 foot, and (asfome be feen at Saint : : as’sin i to ree read of a Table of Walnut-t l of a piece , and of compe ee raine, which held 25 foot broad,al d and matered5 eae 4 e flek ly rare length and thickneffe, a monfter, that might be , under Archited reports he faw it : Such 1472. Fred. the third held his magnificent Feafté topheror hi more a of tafte a give to r avou ende wtion we W1il! refee: Seth in thisFa For Timber withthe ern mod our e par com to and , freth obfervations , but without travelling into Ancient, 5 and that, not only abroad " ntries for thefe wonders. forrel ador’d, and confecrated by Earacodly Trees were of old the ftories of our a the Dryads {leave to conjecture from r prodigies in this = 5 thei of rds Reco left Britains, who had they . examples as remarka would doubtleffe have furnifh’d us with which we have deduc any a3 s, Tree of ure for the growth and ftat fince the remains of what are from the Writers of forreign places , k which has univerfalyet in being (notw ithftanding the havoc improve our moods) to care little the h t ly been made , and Avtzquity can ftand in fair competit ion with any thing that may ; ey : roduce, into cut , t extan n iptio Infcr ‘ 9. . There is fomewhere in Wales an the wood of an old Beam, thus, IN STIPITE NOSTRO, SEXAGINTA PEDES FUERANT FUIT. IOSA SPEC EXCEPTA COMA QU# not withoutlater paThis muft needs have been a noble Tree , but and fpeak firft a , es s « for to inftance in the feveral fpeci pallel ing an old anddecay bulks of fome immenfe Trees; there was ftand did yield uet i p ftum very e nut at Fraiting in Effexy whof Chefi ae amekin ble load of Logs; Icould produce you anotner of of +S oe ls bowe the in with terfhire which contains in Glocef wit n , and ai wain-fcotted Roominlighten'd with eo ¢. ion ment lately nus Plata m vce to anfwer the Licia ats. what a Tilia that moft ae But whileft Iam onthis periods fee ich, defcribesto me Norw of n Brow D. learn'd, and obliging ee ; ’d. ately jut nowreceiv i gbeniedr bapone in large and Tilia, Linden or ema tes miles from Norwich, there groweth at Lepeham mm Norfolk , of the Trunk ar whofe meafure i this, The compafsin the leaft part Chap.XXX. A Difcourfe of Fore‘t-Trees. about two yards from the ground is at leaft eight yards and half: about the root nigh the earth,fixteen yards, about half a yard above that, meer twelve yardsin circuit: The height to the uppermoft boughs about thirty yards, whichfurmounts the famous Tilia of Zurich in Switzerland ; amd uncertain itis whether in any Tilicetum, or Limewalk abroad it be confiderably exceeded: Yet was the firft motive I had to view it notfo much the largeneffe ofthe Tree, as the general opinion that no man could ever nameit , but Ifound it to be a Tilia fx. mina; and (if the diftindion of Bauhinus be admitted from the greater.andlefer \eaf) a Tilia Platyphyllos or Latifolia ; fome leaves being three inches broads but to diftingnifh it from others in the Country, 1 cal'dit Tilia Coloflza Depehamenfis. Thus the Doctor. A Poplar-tree not muchinferior to this he informs me grew lates ly at Harlingly Thetford, at Sir William Gamdies gate,blown down by that terrible Hurrocan about four yearsfince, 11. Iamtold of a very Withy. tree to be feen fomewherein Bark- shire, whichis increafed to a moft ftupendious bulk: But thefé for atriving haftily to their Acme,andperiod , and generally not focon- fiderable for their ufe; I pafs to the 4/h, Elm, Oak, ec. There were of the fir? of thefe divers which meafur'd in length one hundred and thirty two foot , fold lately in Efex: and in the Manor of Horton (to go no farther than the Parifh ofEbjham in Surrey, belonging tomy Brother Richard Evelyn E{q;). there are Elms now f{tanding in good numbers, whichwill bear almoft three foot {quare for more then forty foot in height , which is (in my judgement) a very extraordinary matter, They grow in a moift Gravel, and in the Hedge-rows. Norto infift upon Beech, which are frequently very large 5 there are Oaks of forty foot high; and five foot déameter yet flourifhing in divers old Parks of our Nobility and Gentry. A large and goodly Oakthere is at Reedham in Sir Richard Bermeys Park of Norfolk, which I am inform'd was valu’d at forty pounds the Timber, and twelve pounds the lopping wood. 12. Nor are we to over-pafs thofe memorable Trees which fo Jately flourifhed in Denningtom Park neer Newberry; among{t which, three were moft remarkable from the ingenious Planter, and dedication (ifTradition hold) of the famous Englifh Bard , feofry Chaxcers, of whichone wascall’d the Kings, another the Qucens, and a third Chaucers Oak. Thefirfi of thefe was fifty foot in height before anybough or kxot appear'd, and cut frve foot {quareat the buttsend, allclear Timber, The Queens was fell’d fince the Wars , and held forty foot excellent Timber , {traight as an arrow in growth and grain, and cutting four foot at the (vb, and neer a yard at the top 5 befides a fork of almoft ten foot clear timber abovethe fhaft, which was crown’d with a fhady tuft of boughs, among{t which, fome were on each fide curved like Rams-horns , as if they had been fo induftrioufly bent by hand. This Oak was of a kind fo excellent, cutting a grain clear as any Clap-board (as appear'd in the Wainfcot which was made thereof ) that a thoufandpities it is fome femina- y |