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ridged, and gutiercd with lead, wainscoted and benched round, 

 paved with square tile ; in wliicli stands one tal)le of Ranee stone, 

 set in a frame of wood. There are two doors belonging to this 

 o^arden house, the one opening into the said tarras, and the other 

 opening into the Churchyard, into an alley or walk therein, leading 

 to the Church door, planted on either side thereof with Sicamore 

 trees. The materials of this house, and the said table, we value to 

 be worth £i^. 6s. 8d. 



Betwixt tl\c ascent from the said Lower Level and the said 

 turfed tarras, there are on each side of the gravelled alley that 

 leads from that ascent to the said tarras, three grass plot walks 

 planted with fruit trees of divers sorts and kinds, both pleasant 

 for taste and profitable for use; the borders of which grass plots 

 are Coran* trees; the value of which trees and borders doth 

 herein and hereafter appear in the several particulars thereof; the 

 value of the grass plots being comprised in the foresaid yearly 

 value of the whole Upper Garden. 

 Maze. In the South of the said turfed tarras there are planted one 



great Maze, and one Wilderness, which being severed with one 

 gravelled alley in or near the middle of the said turfed tarras, sets 

 forth the Maze to lie towards the east, and the Wilderness towards 

 the west. The Maze consists of young trees, wood [s], and sprays 

 of a good growth and height, cut out into several meanders, circles, 

 semicircles, windings, and intricate turnings, the walks or intervals 

 whereof are all grass plots. This Maze, as it is now ordered, adds 

 The ^■^'■y ""'^^'^^ ^" ^^^^ worth of the Upper Level. The Wilderness (a 



Wilder- work pf a vast expense to the maker thereof) consists of many 

 young trees, woods, and sprays of a good growth and height, cut 

 and formed into several ovals, squares, and angles, very well 

 ordered; in most of the angular points whereof, as also in the 

 centre of every oval, stands one Lime tree or Elm. All the alleys 

 -j-he of this wilderness, being in naml)er eighteen, are of a gravelled 



Hifiher earth, very well ordered and maintained ; the whole work being 

 compiled with such order and decency, as that it is not one of 

 the least of tlie ornaments of the said Manor or ALinsion House. 

 The foresaid alley dividing the said Maze and Wilderness is 

 planted on each side thereof with Lime trees and Elms, betwixt 

 every tree whereof grows a Cypress tree ; at the south end of 



* Currant. 



