:U8 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



lower level or part whereof adjoins to the South side of the 

 said Manor or Mansion House, and lies level with the floor of 

 the Hall of that Mansion House, containing in itself 4 several 

 squares, having one fair and spacious gravelled walk, neatly 

 ordered, running from East to West all along the said South side 

 of the said Manor or Mansion House, being twenty-five foot 

 broad and one hundred three score and ten yards long ; at 

 either end of which Lower Level is one other gravelled walk 

 running up in a regular form to the Upper or Higher Level. 

 'I'hese three walks include within them the whole extent of the 

 said lower level, and are comprised in the yearly value of the 

 whole Garden. 

 The The said Lower Level is divided and cut out into 4 great squares. 



Level. the two middlemost whereof contain within them eight several 

 squares, and well ordered knotts, stored with the roots of very many 

 and choice flowers ; bordered with box, well planted and ordered, 

 in the points, angles, squares, and roundlets ; the four innermost 

 quarters thereof being paved with Flanders bricks in the intervals, 

 spaces, or little walks thereof ; which knotts, borders, and roots of 

 flowers, and the said Flanders bricks, we estimate to be worth jQ6o, 

 Up the middle of which eight knotts, runs one walk or alley 

 of paved stone from the hall door of the said Manor or Mansion 

 House to the foot of the ascent of the said Higher or Up])er 

 Level; containing in breadth 16 foot and in length 127 foot; the 

 stones whereof we value to be worth ;;^20. 



The said eight knotts are compassed about on three sides 

 thereof with very handsome rails, piked with spired posts in every 

 corner and angle, all of wood, varnished with white, [wdiich] very 

 much adorns and sets forth the Garden ; all along the insides of 

 which rails grow divers Cypress trees in a very decent order, 

 having the outsides bordered with choice and pleasant flowers ; in 

 the two angles of which rails inwards stand two stone statues of 

 good ornament ; which rails, spired posts, and statues we estimate 

 to be worth /"zy. 8s. 

 j^iana I'l the middle of the 4 of the foresaid eight knotts which lie 



Fountain, q,^ ^j^g West side of the said pavement, there stands one Fountain of 

 white marble, having a statue of Diana upon it, and a fair lead 

 cistern belonging to it, from whence runs a channelled pavement 

 of stone into the Birdcage, being shadowed round with twelve 

 Cherry trees, which stand in the points and angles of those four 



