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of hhCQuntrjy hjides. tbofe, and the more 

 natural Properties of ajender HUshand and 

 and, Fat ben, a Char^^er. he was very well 

 knonn to. defer ve by. all that had any Ac- 

 quanitmiee. of him,, the World was deprived of 

 one of tbe hefi of,MaJlers and Encouragers of ■ 

 Arts and Sciences. X particularly Gard'ning ) 

 which/ th(2t Age prodjicd. As for his Works 

 in Gard'niiig, they were none of the fmalleft 5 

 for being •ppffefs'd of a plentiful Fortune^ by 

 the Marri^^e of .his V^ertuous Lady, who is 

 jQiM living,, he m?i&^ Stratton, about feven 

 Miies itom Winchejier^ his Seat ^ and his 

 Gardens, there fon?ie of the beft that were 

 madfe at: that time, . fuch indeed as have 

 mock'd Come that have been fihce done : But 

 the Untimely Fall of that true Lover of his 

 Country, prevented his farther purfuit of 

 that Matter, in which, I am well informed, 

 he defigned more. . . The Gardens at South- 

 a?npion'Hoiife in Bloomsbury-Square were alfo 

 of his making, and are as well as any of that 

 Model.; , I have been more particular in this, 

 on occafion of the Lofs I may have fuftaind 

 in fo gr^at a Friend, (being brought up in 

 that Place where he us'd to fpend his happy 

 Days) whofe Memory I beg leave to Ad- 

 mire, and whofe Death I, with all true 

 Lovers of their Country's Liberty, do heartily 

 bewail He was Beheaded the 2 2d of July^ 

 Anno 1685. 



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