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side thereof, and severed from it with a brick wall of ten foot 

 high, and also severed from Wymbledon Park with a brick wall 

 ten foot high upon the east side thereof, and severed from the 

 highway or lane leading from Wymbledon town to the Iron Plate 

 Mills with a brick wall of nine foot high upon the South side 

 thereof, and from the Kitchen garden with another wall of bricks 

 of ten foot high on the West side thereof, containing upon 

 admeasurement ten acres, one rood, twenty-three perches ; worth 

 per annum £10. 5s. 



Memorandum, that the said Vineyard Garden is divided into 



twelve several triangles, inclosed within four fair walks or allies, 



twenty three foot broad, lying round the said garden, two whereof 



are gravelled walks, and the other two grass plots. Eight of the 



foresaid twelve triangles make in themselves one square, in the 



middle whereof, is one fair round or circle of gravelled earth, in 



the centre whereof stands one Lime tree, having eight several 



walks or allies, 23 foot broad, running across and angular ways, 



answerable to the foresaid eight triangles ; the insides of which 



eight walks or allies are planted with Lime trees, and other young 



and well planted trees and borders of Currant trees and Respass 1 



trees. The other four triangles, having angular and cross walks 



within them, though not so fully completed as the other eight 



triangles, make one square, and, being reduced to a regular form 



with the other eight triangles, make a very complete garden plot. 



Within which said twelve several triangles there are growing 



five hundred and seven fruit trees of divers sorts and kinds of 



fruits, pleasant and profitable, which we value, one tree with 



another, in the whole at £83. us. 



Lime There are also one hundred forty four Lime trees, very well 



trees. planted and ordered, which, growing in a regular form in the 



insides of the said triangles, are a great grace and special ornament 



to the whole garden ; which Lime trees we value, one tree with 



another, in the whole at £28. 16s. 



Wall The insides of three of the outward walks or allies are of 



Fruit. latticed rails, upon which lattices there are growing one hundred 



and six trees of divers kinds of wall fruit, which one with another 



we value to be worth £10. 12s. 



Quince In the inside of the fourth outward walk or alley are sixteen 



trees. quince trees, well planted and ordered, worth £2. 13s. 



[Fruit And also upon the out borders there are growing thirty eight 



trees.] fruit trees of pears and cherries, worth £3. 16s. 



Special There are growing upon three of the walls of the said Vineyard 



Wal .! Garden two hundred fifty and four trees, of divers special sorts 



and kinds of wall fruits, as apricots, pears, pear plums, may 



1 = Raspberry. 



