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which alley, and in the wall that parts the said Upper Garden 



from the Vineyard Garden, betwixt two fair pillars of brick, there 



are set fair and large pair of railed gates, of good ornament to 



both the said gardens. On the South side of the said Maze and 



Wilderness there is one close or private gravelled walk, inclosed J^^Tk'^ 



on each side thereof with a very high and well grown hedge of 



thorn, extending itself from the East wall to the West wall of the 



said Upper Garden ; at each end of which close walk there stands Shadow 

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one little shadow or summer house, covered with blue slate and 



ridged with lead, and fitted for resting places. Which Maze and 



Wilderness, over and besides the trees thereof, which are herein 



hereafter valued amongst the other trees of the Upper Garden, and 



the materials of the said two shadow or summer houses, we 



value to be worth £go» 



There are in the said Upper Garden one hundred thirty [Lime 



^^ _ trees and 



one Lime trees and sixty eight elms, of good growths, worth in Elms.] 



the gross at ;^44. 13s. 



There are in the said hio-her and lower level of the said Upper Cypress 

 ° . trees. 



Garden one hundred twenty three Cypress trees of divers growths, 



which, though they are not of any great profit, yet, as they are 



now planted, they exceedingly adorn and set forth the said upper 



garden, which trees, one with another, we value to be worth in 



the whole £30. 15s. 



There are also in the said higher and lower level an hundred Cherry 



trees. 

 and nineteen Cherry trees, well planted and ordered, and of a 



great growth in themselves, the fruit whereof cannot but be of a 



great yearly value; which trees we value to be worth ^2g. 15s. 



There are also in the said higher and lower level one hundred Fruit 



trees, 

 and fifty fruit trees, of divers kinds of apples and pears, pleasant 



and profitable; these trees we value to be worth /'37. 10s. 



There are growing to the walls of the said Upper Garden, fifty Wall 



Fruits, 

 three wall fruit trees of divers sorts of fruit, as apricots, may 



cherries, duke cherri'js, pear, plums, boone crityans,* french pears, 



and many other sorts of most rare and choice fruits ; which trees, 



one with another, in the whole w^e value at ;^i,3. 5s. 



In and about the said upper garden there are thirteen Vines. 



muskadine Vines, well ordered and planted, bearing very sweet 



grapes, and those in abundance at the season of the year; which 



we value to be worth £3. 5s. 



* =1 bon chyctiens, pears. 



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