§4 ^ ADifcourfeof Forcfi -Trees. 



being one hundred foot long fave one, bare thirty five inches dia- 

 meter. Yet was this exceeded in proportion, and ufe, by that Oak^ 

 which furnilli'd thole prodigious beams that lye thwart her. The 

 diameter of this Tree was four foot nine inches^ which yielded 

 four-fquare beams offonr and forty foot, long each of them. The 

 Ortj^grew about Framingam in Sujfolk.-^ and indeed it would be 

 thought fabulous, but to recount only the extraordinary dimen- 

 fions of fome Timber-trees growing in that County 3 and of the4ex- 

 ceffive fizes of thefe materials^ had not mine own hands meafur'd 

 aTable (more then once^ of above ^iie foot in breadth, nine and 

 an half in length, and J?ac inches thick, all intire and clear ; This 

 plank cut out of a Tree fell'd down by my Fathers order, was 

 made a Pajiry-board , and lyes now on a frame of folid BrickcVPork^ 

 at Wolton in Surrey^ where it was fo placed before the room was 

 finifti'd about it, or wall built, and yet abated by one foot (hotter, 

 to confine it to the intended dimenfions of the place : for at firft, 

 it held this breadth, full ten foot and an half in length. 



14. To thefe I might add that fuprannuated Eugh-tree growing 

 now in Eraburne Church-yard , not far from Scots-hall in Kent 5 

 which being "S^foot 1 1 inches in the circumference, will bear neer 

 twenty foot diameter, as it was meafur'd firft by my felf imperfeft- 

 ly, and then more exaftly for me, by order of the Right Ho- 

 nourable Sir George Carteret, Vice-Chamberlain to his Majefiy, anil 

 Treajurer of the Navy : not to mention the goodly ffanksy. and 

 other confiderable .pieces df fquar'd, and clear Timber, which I 

 obferv'd to lye about it, that had been herv'd, and farvn out of 

 fome of the Jrms only, torn from it by impetuous winds. §lich 

 another Moniier I am inform'd is alfo to be feen in Sutton Church- 

 yard neer WincheSier : But thefe fwith infinite others, which I am 

 ready to produce^ might fairly fuffice to vindicate, and affert our 

 Proportion, as it relates to modern examples, and fizes of Tifnber- 

 free/, comparable to zny o£ the Ancients, remainjiig upon laudable 

 and unfufpefted Record •-, were it not great ingratitude to conceal 

 ' a moft induftrious, and no lefs accuvnte Mcompt , which comes 

 juft now to my hands from M'. Halton , Auditor to the Right 

 Honourable, the moft Illuftrious , and Noble, Henry Hovpard of 



Norfolk^ 



In Sheffield Lord/hip. 



The names of j ^ jj, ^ j^g jq^i^ Par k.,r\eer unto Rivelin,(tood an Oak which had 

 f P^ "^ eighteen yards without bough, or knot , and carried zyard and 

 7elli^me of fi^ inches fquare at the faid height, or length, and not much big- 

 t/'epartjcu- g^^ neer the root : Sold twelve years ago for 11 li. Conjider the 

 lars. .diftance of the place, and Country, and whatfb prodigious a Tree 



Ed.Rawfon. vpould have been worth neer London. 



In Firth's Farme within Sheffield LordJJjip, about twenty years 



fince, a Tree blown down by the wind, made or would have made 



C t> R II k ^^° Forge-hammer-beams, and in thofe,and the other wood of that 



"' ' ' Tree,there was of worth,or made 5 o //. and Godfrey Frogat (who is 



now 



