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object to him, people were apt to say, he did it in 

 a fit of spiteful revenge against Henry, who often, 

 when his army lay encamped in those parts, took 

 a pleasure in sitting under its shade.' * 



Sir Thomas Dick Lauder published in 1834 a 

 number of interesting facts concerning great 

 Elms, collected from various sources. One 

 referred to a large Elm at Mongewell in Oxford- 

 shire, which was seventy-nine feet high, fourteen 

 feet in girth three feet from the ground, and 

 sixty-five feet in the extent of its boughs. It 

 contained 256 feet of solid timber. A Wych-Elm 

 at Tutbury is also referred to. It had a trunk 

 twelve feet long, and, at the height of five feet 

 from the ground, it measured sixteen feet nine 

 inches in girth. Another Scotch or Wych-Elm 

 (Ulmus montana), a tree differing essentially from 

 the common English Elm ( Ulmus campestris), was 

 eighteen feet nine inches at one foot above the 

 roots, and fourteen feet six inches at three feet. 

 This tree was at Hermandston in Haddingtonshire. 

 Another mentioned and figured by Mr. Strutt 

 in his ' Sylva Britannica ' the Chipstead Elm, 

 * 'Forest Scenery,' pages 181-2. 



