OF FOREST-TREES. 



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Slierewood°, Epping,Pamber, Chute, &c. Forests, for the most part, with- CHAP, 

 out trees, and several of them together, heretofore comprehended in that 

 vast Andradswald already mentioned, of one county only. There were 

 formerly twenty groves in Clarendon-park near Salisbury, celebrated by 



" My ingenious friend, major Rook, has favoured me with the following account of the 

 extensive forest of Sherwood, as it stood about fifty years before the publication of Mr. 

 Evelyn's Silva. 



" The forest is described, in a survey made in I609, to be divided into three parts or dis- 

 tricts, called the north part, the south, and the middle part. The north part contains the 

 towns of Cai'burton, Gleadthorpe, Warksop with Nettleworth, Mansfield Wood-house, Clip- 

 stone, RufFord and Edwinstone, the hays of Birkland and Bilhagh, and the town of Budby, 

 Thoresby, Peverelthorp or Palethorp, and Ollerton. 



" The south part contains the towns of Nottingham, part of Wilford, Lenton with Radford, 

 Sneinton, Colwick, Stoke, Carlton, Gedling, Burton with Bulcot, Gunthorp, Caythorp and 

 Lowdham, Lambley, Arnold, Basford, Bulwell, Beskwood-park, Woodborough, Calverton 

 and Saunterford manor. 

 " The middle part contains the towns of Mansfield with Plefley Hill, Skegby, Sutton, 

 Hucknal, Fullwood, part of Kirkby, Blid worth, Papplewick, Newstead, part of Linby, and 

 part of Annesley. 



" The whole quantity of ground in the forest, according to that survey, is as follows : — 



A. R. P. 



Inclosures, 44839 1 10 



Woods, 94s 6 0 24 



Wastes, 35080 2 6 



89406 0 0 



Clipstone-park, 1583 1 25 



Beskwood-park, S672 0 0 



Bulwell-park, 326 3 2 



Nottingham-park, 129 3 9 



95117 3 36" 



Many of the plantations lately made upon this forest, have names given them, with a 

 view to commemorate the signal victories obtained by our gallant admirals. My excel- 

 lent friend, the honourable Frederic Montague, has sliewn distinguished patriotism in this 

 way. One of his plantations is named the Home Plantation. Another is called the Spencer 

 Plantation, in honour of the noble earl who presided at the head of the admiralty, and 

 on whose judicious naval arrangements, too much praise cannot be bestowed. About a mile 

 from these, on the right-hand side of the road, stands th e Neboii Plantaiivn, in honour of the 

 splendid victory obtained over the French fleet at the mouth of the Nile by lord Nelson. 

 Contiguous to this is the St. Vincent Plantation, in commemoration of the signal victory 

 obtained by earl St. Vincent over the Spanish fleet. Adjoining, is another plantation in 

 honour of Sir John Borlace Warren's gallant behaviour on the coast of Ireland, and is 

 called the Warren Plantation. On the right-hand side of the coach-road to Papplewick, 



