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it lyi n g five miles within Buchjngham-fiire : as on the other fide 

 feveral Parishes of Berkshire, Buckingham-Jbire, and Worcejler- 

 flrire, are placed within 0>ford -fij ire. How thefe things come 

 to pafs we have little of certainty., but in all probability this 

 Lillingflcn was accounted in Oxford/lire for the fake of the Lords 

 Lovels, whofe Inheritance, from the addition, we may conclude 

 it once was ; who being powerful men in thefe parts, and not un- 

 likely moil times the Kings Lieutenants, might have permiffion to 

 reckon this their own Fftate, within their own Jurisdiction as 

 part of Oxford fiire ; as I fuppofe all other Purifies thus placed 

 out of the body of their Counties, may alfo have been. 



86. From this neceflary, and therefore I hope pardonable di- 

 greffion, 1 proceed to fome Fruit-trees not ordinary elfewhere, 

 fuch as the double-bearing Pear-trees : whereof I met with one in 

 the Parifh of Hafeley, at a place called Latcbford, in the Hort- 

 yard of Mr. Gooding, called the Pear of Paradice, whofe firft 

 Crop is ripe about Midfummer, and the fecond at Micbaelmafl. 

 There is alfo another of thefe, but of a different kind, in the 

 Parifh of Stanlake at the Chequer-Inn, called the Hundred-found 

 Pear, which BlofToms at two diftinct times, and bears two Crops, 

 whereof it has both forts (much like the Fig) upon the Tree at 

 a time, fome rire, and others green. But in both thefe trees, 

 the Pears in the fecond Crops are fomwhat lefs than of the firft, 

 and grow both after a peculiar manner, moft of them, if not all, 

 coming forth at the ends of the twigs, which are all the pedicles 

 thev feem to have ; and therefore on the tree they do not hang 

 downwards, like thofe of the firft Crop, but point up in the air, 

 or any other way the (hoots direft them. 



87. At Corpus Chrifii College they have a fort of Pear-tree, that 

 bears Fruit in hardnefs little inferior to the younger shoots of 

 the very tree that bears them ; and therefore not undefervedly by 

 fome called the Wooden- pear, though in wet years I have known 

 them pretty foft : but generally they are fo found, and of fo un- 

 alterable a conftitution, that 1 have now fome by me that were fea- 

 fonably gather'd, above ten years old, as hard and firm as ever 

 they were at firft, only fomwhat lefs than when firft gather'd; 

 for which very reafon, in fome parts otworceiler-p/ire where they 

 have plenty of them, they are called Long-lafters, being not fub- 

 jeft to rot like other Pears. 



88. And 



