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object to him, people were apt to say, he did' it in 

 a fit of spiteful revenge against Henry, who often, 

 when his army lay encamped in those parts, took 

 a pleasure iu sitting under its shade.' * 



Sir Thomas Dick Laudier published in 1834 a 

 number of interesting facts concerning grea,t 

 Elms, collected from various sources. One 

 referred to a large Elm at Mongewell in Oxford- 

 shire, which was seventy-nine feet high, fourteen 

 feet in girth three feet from the ground, and 

 sixty-five feet in the extent of its boughs. It 

 contained 256 feet of solid timber. A Wych-Blm 

 at Tutbury is also referred to. It had a trunk 

 twelve feet long, and, at the height of five feet 

 from the ground, it measured sixteen feet nine 

 inches in girth. Another Scotch, or "Wych-Elm 

 {Ulmus montana), a tree differing essentially from 

 the common English Elm ( IJlmus campestris), was 

 eighteen feet nine inches at one foot above the 

 roots, and fourteen feet six inches at three feet. 

 This tree was at Hermandston in Haddingtonshire. 

 Another — mentioned and figured by Mr. Strutt 

 in his- ' Sylva Britannica ' — the Chipstead Elm, 

 * 'Forest Scenery,' pages 181-2. 



