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son of that renowned hero ^Eneas Sylvius ; and in 

 time an hereditary name among the subsequent kings: 

 Latinus Sylvius, Alba Sylvius, who built that glorious 

 city, which contended with Rome her self : And to 

 return to our own country, Seven-oaks in Kent was 

 so called (as reported) from some goodly oaks growing 

 about it, and giving name also to that Lord Mayor 

 (a foundling of that place) and was himself the 

 founder of the first protestant hospital in England, 

 defeated the insurrection of J. Cade, and his complices, 

 for which he was knighted, as he deserved. 



Old Sarum, or Sorbiodunum, had its name a sorbis. 



Hence also from the plenty of beech-trees does 

 Mr. Camden denominate the whole county of Buck- 

 ingham, Bukenham in Norfolk, Buchonia in Germany, 

 Gfc. though indeed the learned author of the additions 

 to the late edition, think them rather so called from 

 the Saxon hue (cervusj a buck, or hart, and this from 

 that in Norfolk, where Sir Henry Spelman reports 

 there are no such trees growing ; whilst we yet know 

 not whether there may not formerly have been store: 

 In all events, be it one or the other, it is certain, 

 abundance of places, countries and families have taken 

 their denomination from trees. 



One thing more I think not impertinent to hint, 

 before I take my leave of this book, concerning the use 

 of standing groves ; that in some places of the world, 

 they have no other water to drink than what their trees 

 afford them; not only of their proper juice (as we have 

 noted) but from their attraction of the evening moisture, 

 which impends in the shape of a cloud over them : 

 Such a tufft of trees is in the island of Ferro, of which 

 consult the learned Isaac Vossius upon Pomponius 

 Mela, and Magnenus de Manna : The same likewise 



