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raised and planted with quicksets. The sum of 545. 8d. was paid 

 to Lawrence Vyncent and John Gaddisby of Kyngston, for four 

 loads of quicksets, every load containing thirty hundred sets of 

 them " to set about the mount by the King's new garden." 

 Another entry refers to the purchase of " ash poles to make 

 rails to bind the quicksets," and " two bundles of wylly roddes 

 to bind " them ; and " three pear trees to set in the mount." 

 The most elaborate part of the mount was the arbour. The 



OLD YEW WALK AND MOUNT ROCKINGHAM. 



" South arbour " seems to have been the one on the mount, 

 but mention is also made in the accounts of a "West arbour," 

 which was apparently very similar, as the same things were 

 bought for both, and payment made to " John a gwylder smith " 

 " for 300 of broddes serving for the fretts in the roof of the 

 south herber at the mount i2d. the 100, 35.," and to Galyon 

 Hone, the King's 'glazier, several sums were paid, of which 

 the following is a sample. " Item in the mount in the garden 



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