A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. 87 



cslly 88 foot j the height from the ground to the top-moft bough 

 8 1 footQthis dimension taken from the proportion that a Gnomon 

 bears to the fliadovv^ there are three Arms broken off and gone, 

 and eight very large ones yet remaining, which are very freih and 

 good Tmher, 



88 foot is 29T yards, which being in this cafe admitted 



for the diameter oi z. circle^ the jquare yards m that 



circHmference will be 6'j6 jfere ^ and then allowing 



three yards (as before) for a beaft, leaves 225 beafts, 



which may poffibly ftand under this Tree. 



But the Lords-Oak.that ftood in Rivelin was in diameter xhxet 



yards,and twenty eight inches ^ and exceeded this in circumferenct 



three feet at one foot from the ground. • 



Shire-Oak. 



Shire-Oak^ia a Tree (landing in the ground late Sir Ji6<7. Heivefx, ^^^^ j^^^^, 

 about a mile frpm Wor^sopp-Park.^ which drops into three shires^ 

 viz. Tork^, Nottingham^ and Derby, and the diftance from bough- 

 end to bough-end is ninety foot and thirty yards. 



This circumference will contain neer 707 fquare-yards, 

 fufficient to (hade 235 horfe. 

 Thus for the accurate M. Halton. 



18. Being informed by a perfin of credit, that an Oak^ in Shef- 

 field-? ark., caird the Ladies-Oak.-, fell'd, contain'd forty two Tun of 

 limber, which had y^rwj- that held at Ipft four foot fquare for ten 

 yards in lengih •-, the Body fix foot of clear libber: That in the 

 fame P<«r^ one might have chofen above 1000 Trees worth above 

 6000 //'. another 1000 worth 4000 //". c!^fic de csteris : To this 

 M. Halton replies, That it might poffibly be meant of the Lords- 

 O^^alreadymention'd to have grown mRivelin: For now Rive- 

 lin it felf is totally deftitute of that ifliie (lie once might have glo- 

 ried in of Oak? '■) there being only the Hall-park adjpyning which 

 keeps up with its number of Oa}{s. And as to the computation of 

 1000 Tree/ formerly in Sheffield-? ark^woxth. 6000 //. it is believ'd 

 there were a thonfand much above that value ■, fince in what is 

 now inclos'd, it is evident touching 100, worth a thoujand pounds. 



My worthy friend Leonard Vinckpey Efq. fir(t Ckrk^i. his Ma- 

 jefties Kitchin (from whom I received the firft hints of many of 

 thefe particulars) did aflure me, that one "john Garland built a ve- 

 ry handfome Barne containing five Bates, with Pan, ToBs, Beams, 

 Spars, 8cc. of one fale Tree growing in IVorl^op-park- But thefe 

 (hall fuffice, I (hould never fini(h to purfue thefe InUances through 

 our once goodly Magazines of Timber for all uiis, growing in this 

 our native Country, comparable (as I faidj to any we caff produce 

 of elder times j and that not only f though chiefly) for the encou- 

 ragement of Planters , and Prejervers of one of the mod: excel- 

 lent, and neceflary Materials in the World for the benefit of Man ; 

 but to evince the continu'd vtgor of Nature, and to reproach the 



want 



