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Petworth, Penshurst, Paston-Hall ? 



Quarendon, Quickswood ? 



Ragland, Rutford, Ragbey, Ricot ? 



Sherborn, Sherley, Swallowfield, Shasford, Shafts- 

 bery Stansted, Scots-hall, Sands of the Vine ? 



Theobalds, Thorn-kill, Thorny ? 



Up-Park ? 



Wilton, Wrest, Woburn, Welbeck, Worksop, 

 Woodstock, which as Camden tells us, was the first 

 park in England ; as it is like to be one of the most 

 magnificent and princely palaces and seats of that 

 illustrious hero, his Grace, the Duke of Marlborough; 

 to whose courage and conduct not the safety of the 

 empire alone, but of Europe is due, whilst the actions 

 at Blenheim and Schellemberg may challenge equal 

 trophies with Miltiades and Caesar, at Marathon and 

 Pharsalia. But to proceed Wimburn, Whittle-Park? 



And generally all those seats which go under the 

 names of castles and halls, (as in Yorkshire, Essex, 

 Gfc.) were stor'd with noble parks full of timber, 

 omitted here ; which, but to have nam'd, would 

 overswell the alphabet ; without reckoning those of 

 Ireland, which few years since was an exhaustable 

 magazine of timber, destroyed by the Cromwellian 

 rebels, not only in that kingdom, but through all 

 England: As to parks, there were more in this nation, 

 than in all Europe beside : And most of all that cata- 

 logue above named, have yet their parks full of 

 good timber-trees, industriously improved by the 

 owners, since the spoil of the late usurpers and sequest- 

 rators. 



To these should I add the vast forests, (most of 

 them belonging to the Crown) as that of Dean, New- 

 Forest, Windsor, Ashdown, Leonard, Sherwood, Ep- 



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