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A DISCOURSE 



BOOK III. boughs ; and that even the tree had been much ampler, the ruins and 

 """^"y^ distances of the columns declare, which the rude soldiers have greatly 

 impaired. 



• 1679. By the date of the ancientest columns, yet entire may be conjec- 

 tured how goodly a tree it was above one hundred and twenty years ago. 

 The inscriptions on the several arms and supporters are as follow : 



D. V. H. Z. W. CLL. Graff xu Leuehtenherg. 1591. 1583. 1575. 



Albert mn Rosenberg Bitter. 1591. Wolff Keidel alter Furleutium. 

 1555. (Some report he planted it.) Hans Heinrie vonder Tana. 1583. 

 Conrad von Flbeg. 1575. Friz Nerter von Herteneh. 1575. Wiricli 



von Gemmingen. 1575. Bartol Mot. 1555. V. Hans Funk der 



zeit Burgermeister Dei erst. 1555. Hans TJlrich Stigilheimer %u Dura- 

 tlienig Fuctlicher. hr. Hoffmeister. 1591. 



Praesul tie Langheim rediens Cisterliae ab urbe 

 Pyramidem banc posuit flammis coelestibus auctam. 

 Sentiat base etiam numen spirabile toto 

 Pectore, et illius semper sit munere felix. 



Johann. Aht znLangh. IQOI. JoJi. Aht zn Schoenthal. 15M. Eber- 

 hard von Gimmingen, 1555. David von Helmstad Amtman. Graff 

 Fridrich zu Mompelyard. Hans Henrich von Lammestein. Sigismund 

 Signiger. L. H. Z. W. A. 353. G. L. Mary Graff au Brandenb. 1562. 

 Georg. Ernest Graff zu Henneb. Herr zu Aschaff b. 1575. Michel 

 Helmling Statt-schreiber. 1555. Hans Ulrickvon Steine. 1575. Daniel 



von Helmstatt. zu Kappenaw. 1556. Stamel von Reischach. 1575. 



Willhelm von Crombach. 1588. Bernolph von Gammingen. 1588. 

 Schweiher Wumbold von Umstatt. 1591. Heinrich Link Pfarrer zu 

 Uden. Andreas von Oberbach Vorstmeist. zu Neu-statt. Neubrecht 



Bart Keller, zu Neu-statt. 1557. Ernberg. Thomas Busch von 



Schorndorff. Wolffang von Gemmingen. 1588. Feit Kumeter Forst- 

 meister. 1551 and 1530. 



After this, we might forbear the naming that at Tillburgh, near Buda 

 in Hungary, growing in the middle of the street, extending to sixty-two 

 paces from the stem, sustained by twenty-eight columns : nor that nearer 

 us, at Cleves in the Low Countries, a little without the entrance into the 

 town, cut in eight faces supported with pillars, and containing a room in 



