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be of a great yearly value ; which trees we value to be worth 



£'29' 15s- 



There are also in the said higher and lower level one hundred Fruit 

 and fifty fruit trees, of divers kinds of apples and pears, pleasant *'^^^^- 

 and profitable ; these trees we value to be worth £37. los. 



There are growing to the walls of the said Upper Garden, fifty WaH ^ 

 three wall fruit trees of divers sorts of fruit, as apricots, may 

 cherries, duke cherries, pear, plums, boone crityans,^ french pears, 

 and many other sorts of most rare and choice fruits ; which trees, 

 one with another, in the whole we value at £1-^. 5s. 



In and about the said upper garden there are thirteen muska- Vines, 

 dine Vines, well ordered and planted, bearing very sweet grapes, 

 and those in abundance at the season of the year ; which we value 

 to be worth ^^3. 5s. 



There also are in the said upper garden two other fair Fig- Fig trees, 

 trees, well planted and ordered, which we value to be worth los. 



The borders of box, rosemary, corants, and the roots of flowers Box 

 and herbs belonging to the said upper garden, and not herein 

 before valued, we estimate to be worth £27. 17s. 6d. 



There is one parcel of land belonging to the said upper garden. The 

 containing four perches of land, called the Hartichoke Garden, ^^^^^ 

 l5ring on the west end of the said lower level ; unto which there garden 

 are 12 steps of descent ; the ground whereof is ordered for the 

 growth of hartichokes, the value and contents whereof are com- 

 prised in the foresaid yearly value and admeasurement of the said 

 upper garden ; but the roots and plants of hartichokes therein 

 now growing and planted we value at £1. ids. 



There are in the said Hartichoke Garden five very handsome 

 Bay trees, which we value to be worth £1. 



And also of one parcel of ground adjoining to the North and The 

 East wall of the Oringe Garden, commonly called the Phesant Q^rden. 

 Garden, severed from the Park with a pale of deal boards of 

 10 foot high ; within which is one phesant house, boarded within 

 and without, containing 6 rooms, tiled overhead, and also one 

 shed, tiled, containing 4 rooms, wherein the phesant keeper used 

 to live and lodge ; one great partition of deal boards, ten foot 

 high and fifty yards long ; twenty partitions of lattices, sixty 

 three young sicamore trees, two oaks, two ash trees, three birch 

 trees, ten fruit trees, and a descent of twenty three steps of stone ; 

 all which we value to be worth £2^. 13s. The Phesant garden 

 contains upon admeasurement one acre, — roods, and 5 perches, 

 [and] is worth per annum £1. 



And also of one other garden called the Vineyard [Garden], The 

 adjoining to the foresaid upper or great garden upon the East q'^^^^ 

 1 =bon chrHiens, pears. 



