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The “Green Dale Cabinet” at Wcloeck, 
AND THE 
“Green Dale Oak” from which t was wade. 
By LLEWELLYNN JEwITT, F.S.A., &c., &c. 
a Be T is not my intention in the present paper to enter 
Mq| at length into any particulars of the history of the 
Old Abbey of Welbeck, much less to attempt a 
description of the magnificent, and in many ways 
remarkable—indeed unique—mansion by which it has been 
succeeded, and which has not only been raised upon, but in 
great measure formed beneath, its site. This I have, to some 
extent, already done in my “Stately Homes of England,” and 
I purpose, therefore, on the present occasion, to confine myself 
to a few observations upon a remarkable piece of furniture 
therein preserved, and the grand old tree—the “Green Dale 
Oak ”—from the heart of whose trunk it was formed. 
It may, however, be well, in few words, to say that Welbeck 
was, before the Conquest, held by the Saxon, Sweyn, but, later 
on, passed, as part of the manor of Cuckney, to the Flemangs ; 
the Abbey being founded by Thomas de Cuckney, grandson of 
Joceus de Flemang, or Flemyng, in 1153, who colonised it with a 
party of canons from Newhouse, in Lincolnshire, the first house 
of the Premonstratensians in England. Welbeck was dedicated 
to St. James, and endowed with grants of land, which from time 
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