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How goodly a sight were it, if most of the de- 

 mesnes of our countrey gentlemen were crown'd and 

 incircl'd with such stately rows of limes, firs, elms, 

 and other ample, shady and venerable trees as adorn 

 New-Hall in Essex, the seat of that Suffolk Knight 

 near Yarmouth, our neighbouring pastures at Barnes; 

 with what has been planted of later years by the 

 illustrious Marquess of Worcester ; the most accom- 

 plish'd Earl of Essex ; and even in less fertile soils, 

 though purer air at Euston, by the Right Honourable 

 the Earl of Arlington, Lord Chamberlain of his 

 Majesty's Houshold : and at Cornbury by the late 

 Lord Chancellor the Earl of Clarendon ; and is done, 

 nearer this imperial city, by the Earl of Danby, late 

 Lord High Treasurer of England, at Wimbleton ; 

 the noble Earl of Rochester (succeeding him in that 

 supreme office) at New-Park ; the Duke of Norfolk 

 at Albery, now the Lord Garnsey's ; Sir Robert 

 Cooke at Durdence, at Epsom ; now my Lord 

 Barkley's : At Bedington an ancient seat of the 

 Carews, famous for the first orange-trees planted in 

 the naked earth 100 years since, and still flourishing; 

 Row-hampton, Losely, Ashstead, seats, parks and 

 plantations ; the Earl of Devonshire's mores, Sir 

 Robert Howard, &c. 



Besides what might have been seen (as to me they 

 were in perfection, and with admiration) the Royal 

 seats of Oatland, Richmond, and above all Nonsuch, 

 described by the judicious Camden, with deserved 

 eulogies. 



All these, and more, in my own sweet county of 

 Surrey, inferior to none for pleasure and salubrity 

 of the air : To which we add the princely sojourns 

 of the adjoining county, Eltham and Greenwich, for 



