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woodward. 



twelve years ago for eleven pounds. Consider the distance of the place chap. hi. 

 and country, and what so prodigious a tree would have been worth near ''^^'y^ 

 London. 



In Firth's farm, within Sheffield lordship, about twenty years since, 

 a tree blown down by the wind made, or would have made, two forge- 

 hammer beams ; and of those, and the other wood of that tree, there was ^^p*- BuUock. 

 worth, or made, fifty pounds ; and Godfrey Frogat, who is now living, 

 did oft say he lost thirty pounds by the not buying of it. 



A hammer-beam is not less than seven yards and a half long, and 

 four feet square at the barrel. 



In Sheffield-park, below the manor, a tree was standing which was 

 sold by one Giffbrd, (servant to the then Countess of Kent,) for two 

 pounds ten shillings, to one Nicholas Hicks, which yielded of sawn 

 wair fourteen hundred, and, by estimation, twenty cords of wood. 

 A wair is two yards long and one foot broad, six score to the hundred : 



so that in the said tree were ten thousand and eighty feet of boards, Ed. worphy, 

 which, if any of the said boards were more than half an inch thick, 

 renders the thing yet more admirable. 



In the upper end of RiveHn stood a tree, called the Lord's Oak, of 

 twelve yards about, and the top yielded twenty-one cord ; cut down 

 about thirteen years since. 



In Sheffield park, ann. 1646, stood above one hundred trees, worth 

 a thousand pounds ; and there are yet two worth above twenty pounds. — 

 StiU note the place and market. 



In the same park, about eight years ago, Ralph Archdall cut a tree 

 that was thirteen feet diameter at the kerf, or cutting-place near the 

 root. 



In the same park two years since, Mr. Sittwell, with Jo. Magson, did 

 choose a tree, which, after it was cut, and laid aside flat upon level 

 ground, Samuel Staniforth, a keeper, and Edward Morphy, both on 

 horseback, could not see over the tree one another's hat crowns. (And 



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