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A DISCOURSE 



BOOK III. Falston, Flanckford ? 



Graystock, Goodwood, Grooby, Grafton, Golden-grove? 

 Holdenby, Haddon, Hornby, Hatfield, Haland, Hothfield, Hinton, 

 Holm-Pierpont, Horstmonceaux ? 

 Incliingfield ? 

 Kirby, Knowsely? 



Longieat, Latham, T^ensal, Latimer, Lawnsbrough ? 



More-park, MulgTave, JNIarlborough ? 



Normanby, North-hall, Norborough, Newnham ? 



St. Ostlo, Oxnead ? 



Petworth, Penshiu'st, Paston-hall ? 



Querendon, Quickswood ? 



Ragland, Rutford, Ragbey, Ricot ? 



Sherburn, Sherley, Swallowfield, Shasford, Shaftsbury, Stanstedj 

 Scots-hall, Sands of the Vine ? 

 Theobalds, Thorn-kill, Thorny, Up-park ? 



AVilton, Wrest, Woburn, Welbeck, Worksop, Woodstock, (which, as 

 Camden tells us, was the first park in England,) as it is like to be one of 

 the most magnificent and princely palaces and seats of that illustrious 

 hero, his grace the duke of Marlborough, to whose courage and con- 

 duct not the safety of the empire alone, but of Europe, is due, whilst 

 the actions at Blenheim and Schellenberg may challenge equal trophies 

 with Miltiades and Cffisat, at Marathon and Pharsalia ? But to pro- 

 ceed, Wimburn, Writtle-park ? 



And generally, all those seats which go under the names of castles and 

 halls, as in Yorkshire, Essex, &c. were stored with noble parks full of 

 timber, omitted here ; which, but to have named, would over-swell the 

 alphabet ; without reckoning those of Ireland, which, a few years since, 

 was an inexhaustible magazine of timber, destroyed by the Cromwellian 

 rebels, not only in that kingdom, but through all England : as to parks, 

 there were more in this nation than in all Europe beside : and most of 

 all that catalogue above-named, have yet their parks full of good tim- 

 ber-trees, industriously improved by the owners, since the spoil of the 

 late usurpers and sequestrators. 



To these should I add the vast forests, (most bf them belonging to the 

 crown,) as that of Dean, New-Forest, Windsorj Ashdown^ Leonard, 



