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25 6 horfes ftand under that Tree ; or allowing as before 2 fquare 

 feet for a man, 3456 men. 



46. Yet at Ricot, in the Park of the Right Honorable the Lord 

 Norreys, there is an Oak. yet fomwhat bigger then either of the 

 former, by the Author of Dodona's Grove, cal(ed his Robur Brita- 

 nicum, which extendeth its branches from the trunk of the Tree 

 about 1 8 yards, fo that the diameter of its circumference being 

 36 yards, it takes within its Area 972 fquare yards ; under the 

 umbrage of which Tree, upon the afore-mentioned proportions, 

 no lefs than 324 horfes, or 4374 men, may fufficiently be (hel- 

 ter'd. 



47. Andthefeare theTrees moft capacious without ; fomeo- 

 thers there are that have given (lielter within the hollow of their 

 trunks : Mr. Evelyn tells us of one-, fom where in Gloccjier- (hire, 

 that contains within its bowels a prety wainfcoted Room, en- 

 lighten 1 d with windows, and furnifti'd with feats, istc. which I 

 fuppofe may have given reception to many an honevt Gentleman, 

 Now though 'tis true we have none put to fo Honorable a ufe, yet 

 the hollow Oak. on Kidlington-grttn, for the neceflary and pub- 

 lick fervice it has done , ought perhaps to have preference, 

 though neither fo great nor gaudy , it being frequently ufed be- 

 fore the death of Judge Morton (before whofe Houfe it flood) 

 for the Imprifoning Vagabonds and other inferior MalefaSiors, for 

 the fpace of a night or fo, till they conveniently might be had to 

 the Goal at Oxford : Of whom,the hollow is fo large within, that ic 

 would receive eight or ten commodioufly enough, the Tree with- 

 out being 25 foot round above the fpurs, 



48. Juft fuch another Prifon as this, as we are informed by 

 Johan. Ferdinand Hertoda \ was made in Moravia, in the trunk of 

 a Willcw 27 foot round, in the Village of Moravan, by a certain 

 Judge of that C ountry : The extravagant growth of which Tree, 

 he attributes to the fertility of the whole Marquifate ; whereas I 

 rather think (not but that the Country may be fertile enough) 

 the ex tr earn rank growth of that, and of all other Plants fo ex- 

 ceeding the ordinary couife of Nature, ought rather to be im- 

 puted to fome more peculiar agreeablenefs of the refpe&ive foils 

 and Plants, than is ordinarily met with in any other places of the 

 fame Country where-ever it be. 



1 Tartaromafligis Moravia, part- 1. cap. 17. 



49. On 



