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great parcke niound some fyve perche or lugge, and soe all the waye sometimes 

 moore from thence along the waye where standithe a great woorke which it is 

 supposed was left for a meare [boundary] deviding and standing between 

 Mughal] and Wotton's wood which was called the Ragge that Syr John Dan vers 

 felly d [felled] belonging to Wotton, so along to Gadcrafte comer, where divers 

 dothe say that a mearstou lyinge within the shoore of the dyche by gadcrafte, 

 deviding the manuor of Wotton and Mughall so as Mughall had nothing to doe 

 withought the 1 eyther between Braydene lane and Shropshire marsh for Wottou 

 dothe inacke and mayntayne all the waye, and it was ever called Quene Anne's 

 waye by which they hathe by theyre passing to Braydene, and all other men 

 hathe and not other waies these witnesses before mentioned further saye that 

 they know one John Munte and John Streete, Thomas Ledlens, John Trowe, 

 Richard Baithe were workmen to kepe and mend the great parcke hedge and 

 bound from Baynard's Ashe lane and well to near Brink worthe Hill, and al waies 

 dyd shroud and cut theyre fuell for that purpose along all the Raage on Braden's 

 s} r de, alwaies taking so much skoop [scope] from the hedge as a man could 

 through a hatchet, aud for tryall, John Mountaine being one of the workmen, 

 dyd through his hatchet eight lugge [eight poles], and so dyd Thomas Rood waye 

 and three others, which was ever held for a certayne distance how far they myght 

 cut the fuell wy thought [without] deny all, and so held and mayntayned time 

 ought of mynde, and these workmen were payde for there worke by one Mr. 

 Predye being then Raynger to the great parcke under Sir Henry Long, who was 

 for the Kyng [viz., Edward VI.]. Itm. further they sayeth that they know one 

 Christopher Robins was great unkell to William Robins, now one of your 

 teunants at Baynard's Ashe, and John Skeet father to William Skeet of the 

 same place, were always warned to the fence court, and did ever serve in the 

 Jurye, and so theyre predecessors tyme ought of mynde, and no exception of 

 Wotton for theyre common of Braden untill of laut time." 



W. F. Paksons. 



Alternating Generations : a Biological Study of Oak Galls and 

 Gall Flics ; By Hermann Adler, M.D. Sohleswig. Translated 

 and edited by Charles E. Straton, F.R.C.S., Ed., F.E.S., with 

 illustrations. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1894. (Prico 

 10s. 6d.) Cr. 8vo, pps. xl. and 198. 



Everyone knows the oak apple, but how many people know anything of tho 

 life history of the insect by which that well-known gall is formed ? It has long 



1 "Eyther " means hedge. " Eder breche " is an old term for hedge-breaking. 

 The tradition of throwing the hatchet was handed down, and known, before tho 

 discovery of this old document. 



