48 S Y L V A BOOK in 



IN SHEFFIELD LORDSHIP. l 



15. In the Hall Park, near unto Rivelin, stood an 

 oak which had eighteen yards without bough or knot, 

 and carried a yard and six inches square at the said 

 height, or length, and not much bigger near the root : 

 Sold twelve years ago for 1 1 //. Consider the distance 

 of the place, and country, and what so prodigious a 

 tree would have been worth near London. 



In Firth's farm within Sheffield Lordship, about 

 twenty years since, a tree blown down by the wind, 

 made, or would have made two forge-hammer-beams, 

 and in those, and the other wood of that tree, there 

 was of worth, or made 5o//. and Godfrey Frogat (who 

 is now living) did oft say, he lost 30/2'. by the not 

 buying of it. 



A Hammer-beam is not less than j\ yards long, 

 and 4 foot square at the barrel. 



In Sheffield Park, below the mannor, a tree was 

 standing which was sold by one Giffard (servant to 

 the then Countess of Kent) for 2//. IO.T. to one Nich. 

 Hicks; which yielded of sawn wair fourteen hundred, 

 and by estimation, twenty cords of wood. 



A wair is two yards long, and one foot broad, six- 

 score to the hundred : So that in the said tree 

 was 10080 foot of boards ; which, if any of the 

 said boards were more than half-inch thick, 

 renders the thing yet more admirable. 



In the upper end of Rivelin stood a tree, call'd the 

 Lord's-oak, of twelve yards about, and the top yielded 

 twenty one cord, cut down about thirteen years since. 



1 The Names of the persons who gave intelligence of the particulars are : 

 Edw. Rawson. 

 Cap. Bullock. 

 Edw. Morphy, Wood-ward, 



