144 THE RHYMED CHRONICLE OF JOHN HARESTAFFE. 



And two foote more : wherby it falleth out, 

 The Park is almost three such myles about, 

 It onely wants of Roodes some twentie foure, 

 Which makes in yards but twelve above nyne score. 



And nowe because I thinke there wilbe some, 



(Though yet unborne) y* in the tyme to come 



Wilbe content to read what here I wr) te 



Although but rudely I the same indyte 



Yet beinge done in ayde of memorie, 



And for to gratifye Posteritie, 



A litle more I will my ryme inlarge, 



And shewe by whose devyse and at whose charge 



This worke was both begun and finished, 



And afterward with deere replenished 



Knowe then that Edward Vernon was his name, 



That first contryv'd and did effect y e same. 



His dignitie to learne if you desyre, 



He was as then entytled an Escuyer, 



Yet his estate so faire y* when he pleas'd 



To greater tytle he might soone be rays'd : 



Three Vernon's lands of right expected hee, 



Of Houndhill, Hilton, and of Sudburie ; 



Houndhill by birth-right, Hilton by his wife, 



(Both which, two mothers held for terme of lyfe) 



But unto Sudbury y e last and best, 



(Wherof one moytie he as then possest) 



He was elected and adopted heire, 



By the late owner of that Lordship fayre : 



John Vernon was he called and of that name, 



He was the Third y l did enjoy the same. 



For here tis meete I lett you understand, 



That Sudbury and all his other land 



And faire Revennewes (beinge a great estate) 



Into the Vernon's name came but of late. 



They were the greate Montgomeries heretofore 



Who with y e same held manie Lordships more 



