36 ““GREEN DALE CABINET.” 
Through this opening, cut through the genuine “ heart of oak ” 
of the stem of the tree, one of the noble owners of Welbeck is 
said, with his bride, to have driven, or been driven in, a carriage 
drawn by six horses, on the occasion of his marriage. 
It is also said that on several different later occasions, carriages 
have been driven through the rudely cut and arched opening, 
while equestrians by the hundred have ridden through it from 
side to side. 
THE GREEN DALE OAK, IN THE PARK AT WELBECK. 
The event to which I have alluded, of the carriage drawn by 
six horses, and driven by a cocked-hatted coachman on the box, 
having passed through the tree, is admirably represented on a fine 
old engraving, executed by George Vertue in 1727 ; and it is to 
