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1762 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
branch like the former. In a great storm, on the 27th of February, 1781, both 
the wall and the tree were blown down together.” ( Gilpin.) 
Mr. South, in the Bath Society Papers, tells us that in the New Forest there 
was an oak, which was felled in 1768, called the Langley Oak, the trunk of 
which, after it was cut down and barked, measured 36 ft. in circumference at the 
base, and 18 ft. in circumference at the height of 20 ft., which was the length of 
the bole. The head was all knees and crooks, and the branches extended 
about 40 ft. from the tree on every side. The timber was perfectly sound, and 
the tree was in a growing state when it was cut down. 
Isle of Wight. Nunwell Park affords examples of several oaks which 
are supposed to have flourished, where they are now in a state of decay, at the 
time the grant of the park was made by William the Conqueror to the ances- 
tor of Sir William Oglander, one of the Norman in- 
vaders, and from whose family the possession has never \Q¥ 
lapsed. (Ameen. Quer., fol. 18.) 
Herefordshire. The Moccas Park Oak (jfig.1595.), 
on the banks of the Wye, is 36 ft. in girt at 3ft. from 
the ground. It is hollow in the trunk; but its head, 
though much injured by time and storms, is bushy and 
leafy. 
Hertfordshire. The Great Oak, at Panshanger (fig. 1596.), growing on the 
estate of Earl Cowper, is, as Strutt observes, a fine specimen of the oak tree 
in its prime. Though upwards of 250 years old, and 
though it has been called the Great Oak for more 
than a century, it yet appears ‘even now to have x 
searcely reached its meridian : the waving lightness of | 4 
its feathery branches, dipping down to the very ground, 
the straightness of its stem, and the redundancy of its 
foliage, give it a character the opposite of antiquity, 
and fit it for the sequestered and cultivated pleasure- * 
grounds in which it stands.” (Sylv. Brit., p.7.) The oe 
huge oak near Theobald’s, commonly called Goff’s ae 
Oak, is 32 ft. in circumference close to the ground. ay 
It gives its name to an inn close by, from the door of which it assumes a 
most imposing appearance. In one of the rooms there is the figure of this 
oak, and stuck thereon the following printed account :—“ This tree was 
planted a.p. 1066, by Sir Theodore Godfrey, or Goffby, who came over 
with William the Conqueror.” (See Aman. Quer., fol. 18.) 
Kent. There are three fine oaks at Fredville, in the parish of Newington, 
in this county. The Majesty Oak ( jig. 1597.), at 8 ft. from ground, exceeds 
28 ft. in girt; and it contains above 1400 ft. of timber. Stately 
(fig. 1598.) has a clear stem 70 ft. high, and 18 ft. in girt at 
ne 4 ft. from the ground. Beauty 
SNCS NE a is not so high, and is only 
.. 16ft. in girt at 4 ft. from the 
= ground. Fisher’s Oak, about 
17 miles from London, on the 
Tunbridge Road, is said by 
Martyn to have been of enor- 
Sse mous bulk. The part of the 
1597 trunk now remaining is 24 ft. 
in compass. When King James made a progress that way, 
a schoolmaster in the neighbourhood, and all his scholars, 
dressed in oaken garlands, came out of this tree in great 
numbers, and entertained the king with an oration, There is a tradition at 
Tunbridge Wells, that 13 men, on horseback, were once sheltered within this 
tree. Sir Philip Sydney’s Oak, at Penshurst (jig. 1599.), is thus mentioned 
by Ben Jonson : — 
© That taller tree, of which the nut was set 
At his great birth, where all the Muses met,” 
