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bouring lodges - y on the three fides of which 

 ftone the following infcriptions. are engraven, 

 i. 



Here flood the oak-tree, on which an arrow, 

 jfhot by fir Walter Tyrrel at a ftag, glanced, 

 and ftruck king William II. furnamed Rufus, 

 in the breaft, of which {broke he inilantly died, 

 on the zd of auguft noo. 

 2. 



King William II. being thus flain, was laid 

 on a cart, belonging to one Purkefs ; and 

 drawn from hence to Winchester, and buried 

 in the cathedral church of that city. . 



3- 

 That the fpot, where an event fo memorable, 



happened, might not hereafter be unknown; 

 this ftone was fet up by John lord Delaware, 

 who has feen the tree growing in this place. 



Lord Delaware aflerts plainly, that he had 

 feen the oak-tree ; and as he lived much on the 

 fpot, he had probably other grounds for the 

 aflertion, befides the tradition of the country. 

 That matter however refts on his authority. 



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