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anything like this amount. Murray gives 27 feet 

 at 4 feet from the ground. Jennings measured it 

 at 5 feet from the ground, and found it 26|^, and he 

 mentions a wide opening as increasing the measure- 

 ment. This opening is caused by the falHng away 

 of a large portion of the tree on the south side, and 

 it has evidently increased since he measured it, as 

 it is now (Sept, 1 1, 1894) 26 feet 9 inches at 4 feet, 

 and 27 feet at 6 feet from the ground. The top has 

 been a good deal broken and killed. 



Selby, in his Forest Trees, 1842, says that this 

 tree still carries a noble and flourishing head. 

 There must have been sad changes since that 

 time, as the tree shows every sign of rapid decay, 

 and there is very little verdure left. 



The Rev. C. A. Johns ^ gives an engraving, 

 p. 342, of the Crowhurst yew, but does not desig- 

 nate the locality. It evidently, however, refers to 

 the Sussex tree, though the resemblance is not 

 very striking. 



'Aubrey gives 10 yards round trunk,' ch. i., but 

 this also refers to the Surrey tree.^ 



'The tree measured '^^'^^ feet at the bottom of the 

 trunk, and about 4 feet from the ground, 27 feet. '^ 



There is a fine tree, much storm-broken, at the 

 north-west corner of the churchyard, which measures 

 13 feet 10 inches at 3 feet from the ground. 



^ Forest Trees, etc., p. 342. 



- Selby, Forest Trees, p. 374. ^ Horsfield's Sussex. 



