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in the middle of the said Kitchen Garden, very lovely to look upon, 

 worth £i. ios. 

 "herry There are also thirty eight Cherry trees well planted and 

 ees -l ordered, in the said Kitchen Garden, which we value one with 



another to be worth in the whole the sum of £4. 15s. 

 3orders There are also in the said Kitchen Garden very great and large 

 F R ° S & Dor ders of Rosemary, Rue, White Lavender, and great variety 

 of excellent herbs, and some choice flowers, and in the South east 

 end of the said Kitchen Garden there is a Muskmilion 1 ground, 

 trenched, manured, and very well ordered for the growth of 

 Mus[k]milions ; which borders, herbs, flowers, and Mus[k]milion 

 ground we value to be worth £3. 



Memorandum, that there is one door belonging to the said 

 Kitchen Garden, opening into the Vineyard Garden, and one other 

 door which opens into the highway or lane that leads from 

 Wymbledon town to Wymbledon Churchyard. 

 'alls. The brick walls of all the gardens aforesaid and of the courts 



hereafter mentioned do contain one hundred and seventy pole or 

 square rod of wall, at 16 foot and \ to the pole, which we value 

 to be worth £3. per rod, in toto, £510. 



The rest of the Survey relates to the Courts, ascents, woodyard, 

 dairy house, slaughterhouse yard, the site, the paddock, the 

 Brewer's close, barns, Wymbledon Park, a Dutch barn, deer, 

 timber trees in the Park, paddock, &c. (valued at £2,174. os. 6d.) ; 

 springs and coppices of wood (£2,020. 3s. iod.) ; fishponds, 

 Harpham's farm, a dovecote, meadow called the Great Bitterns, 

 Wymbledon Common, Putney Common, Moreclack Common, 

 pollard trees growing on the said Commons (£500.), &c. 



It is signed by Hu : Hindley, John Inwood, John Wale, and 

 John Webb, and examined by William Webb, Surveyor General. 



PARLIAMENTARY SURVEYS 



HERTFORD, No. 26. 



SURVEY OF THEOBALDS. 2 



Extracts from the Survey of the Manor of Theobalds, April, 

 1650 : 

 House, rooms, galleries, &c. 



The Pheasant Garden. — A long description of a house called 



the Coale Courte or Scaldinge House, &c. : " which said house 



1 = Melons. 2 Transcribed from the original MS. in the Record Office. 



