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Mr. Halton replies, that it might possibly be meant of 

 the Lords-Oak already mention'd, to have grown in 

 Rivelin : For now Rivelin it self is totally destitute of 

 that issue she once might have gloried in of oaks ; 

 there being only the Hall-Park adjoyning, which 

 keeps up with its number of oaks. And as to the 

 computation of i ooo trees formerly in Sheffield-Park 

 worth 6000 //'. it is believ'd there were a thousand 

 much above that value ; since in what is now inclos'd, 

 it is evident touching i oo worth a thousand pounds. 



1 am inform'd that an oak (I think in Shropshire) 

 growing lately in a copp'ce of my Lord Cravens, 

 yielded 1 9 tun and half of timber, 23 cord of fire-wood, 



2 load of brush, and 2 load of bark. And my worthy 

 friend Leonard Pinckney, Esq ; lately first clerk of 

 his Majesty's kitchin, did assure me, that one John 

 Garland built a very handsome barn, containing five 

 baies, with pan, posts, beams, spars, &c. of one sole 

 tree, growing in Worksopp-Park. I will close this 

 with an instance which I greatly value, because it is 

 transmitted to me from that honourable and noble 

 person, Sir Edw. Harley : I am (says he) assur'd by an 

 inquisition taken about 300 years since, that a park of 

 mine, and some adjacent woods, had not then a tree 

 capable to bear acorns ; yet, that very park I have seen 

 full of great oaks, and most of them in the extreamest 

 wane of decay. The trunk of one of these oaks af- 

 forded so much timber, as upon the place would have 

 yielded 1 5 //*. and did compleatly seat with wainscot- 

 pews a whole church : You may please (says he, 

 writing to Sir Rob. Morray) to remember when you 

 were here, you took notice of a large tree, newly 

 fall'n ; when it was wrought up, it proved very hollow 

 and unsound: One of its cavities contain'd two Hogs- 



