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yards in that circumference will be 676 fere ; 



and then allowing three yards (as before) for a 



beast, leaves 225 beasts, which may possibly 



stand under this tree. 



But the Lord's Oak, that stood in Rivelin, was in 

 diameter three yards, and twenty eight inches ; and 

 exceeded this in circumference three feet, at one foot 

 from the ground. 



SHIRE-OAK. 



Shire-Oak is a tree standing in the ground late Sir 

 Tho. Hewet's, about a mile from Worksopp-Park, 

 which drops into three shires, viz. York, Nottingham 

 and Derby, and the distance from bough-end to 

 bough-end is ninety foot and thirty yards. 



This circumference will contain near 707 square 

 yards, sufficient to shade 235 horse. 



Thus far the accurate Mr. Halton. 



1 8. Now among such venerable trees (especially 

 conspicuously plac'd as this last Mr. Halton has nam'd) 

 should be spared for the most noble and natural 

 boundaries to great parishes, and gentlemens estates, 

 famous for which is the chesnut-tree at Tamworth in 

 Gloucestershire ; which has continu'd a signal bound- 

 ary to that manner in King Stephen's time, as it stands 

 upon record: See lib. HI. cap. 7, 18. And now 

 before I shut up these encouraging instances, I am 

 informed by a person of credit, that an oak in Sheffield- 

 Park, call'd the Ladies Oak, fell'd, contain'd forty two 

 tun of timber, which had arms that held at least four 

 foot square for ten yards in length ; the body six foot 

 of clear timber : That in the same park, one might 

 have chosen above 1000 trees worth above 6000 //'. 

 another i ooo worth 4000 //. & sic de ceteris. To this 



