APPENDIX. 



PARLIAMENTARY SURVEYS, 



SURREY, No. 72. 



SURVEY OF WIMBLEDON.* 



A Survey of the Manor of Wymbledon, alias Wimbleton, with 

 the Rights, Members, and Appurtenances thereof, lying and being 

 in the county of Surrey, late parcel of the possessions of 

 Henrietta Maria, the relict and late Queen of Charles Stuart, late 

 King of England, made and taken by us whose names are 

 hereunto subscribed in the month of November, 1649 ; by virtue 

 of a commission grounded upon an Act of the Commons 

 assembled in Parliament for sale of the Honors, Manors, and Lands 

 heretofore belonging to the late King, Queen, or Prince, under the 

 hands and seals of five or more of the Trustees in the said Act 

 named and appointed. 



[The Hall, the rooms, the stone gallery, the grotto, the marble 



parlour, the organs, the Chapel, the King's chamber, the West 



stairs, the East stairs, a room called the Den of Lions, the 



great gallery, the Queen's chamber, the second, third, and 



fourth floors, the Clock stairs, the Wardrobe stairs, the back 



stairs, the leads, &c., are described.] 



And also consisting of one garden called the Oringe garden, 



adjoining to the East end of the said Manor or Mansion House, 



severed from the Pheasant Garden with a high brick wall upon 



the East and North sides thereof, and from the upper or greater 



garden with an open pale on the South side thereof, containing 



upon admeasurement one rood and twenty perches of ground, 



worth per annum £1. 



Memorandum, that in the said Oringe Garden there are 



four knotts, fitted for the growth of choice flowers, bordered with 



box in the points, angles, squares, and roundlets, and handsomely 



turfed in the intervals or little walks thereof ; which knotts, and 



the flower roots therein growing, we estimate to be worth £'^'\- los. 



In the middle part of which four knotts is one large round. Marble 



' Fountain, 



paved with small pebble stones ; in the middle whereof stands 



* Transcribed from the original MS. in the Record Office. It has been 

 printed before with the complete Survey in Vol. X. of the ArcJiaologiu. 



