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has been lately found near the fpot, where 

 Rufus's monument ftands. If this be the 

 cafe, it feems, in fome degree to authenticate 

 the account which Camden * gives us of 

 the fcene of that prince's death : for he fpeaks 

 of the premature vegetation of that very tree, 

 on which the arrow of Tyrrel glanced ; and 

 the tree I now fpeak of, if it really exift, 

 tho I have no fufficient authority for it, 

 might have been a defcendant of the old oak, 

 and have inherited it's virtues. 



It is very probable however there may be 

 other oaks in the foreft, which may like- 

 wife have the property of early germination. 

 I have heard it often fufpedted, that people 

 gather buds from other trees, and carry 

 them, on old Chriftmas-day, to the oak at 

 Cadenham, from whence they pretend to 

 pluck them. For that tree is in fuch repute ; 

 and reforted to annually by fo many vilitants, 

 that I think it could not eafily fupply all 



it's votaries, without foreign contributions. 



Some have accounted for this phenomenon by 

 fuppofing that leaves have been preferved 



* See Camden's account of New-foreft. 



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