25^ horfes ftand under that Tree ; or allowing as before 2 fquare 
feet for a man^ 34$^ fnen. 
46. Yet at Ricot, in the Park of the Right Honorable the Lord 
Norreys^ there is an 6^^^ yet fomwhat bigger then either of the 
former, by the Author of DoJona's Grcne^ called his Eobur Brita- 
nicum^ which extendeth its branches from the trunk of the Tret 
about I 8 yards, fothat the diameter of its circumference being 
36yards, ittakes within its Area <^yi fquare yards ; underthe 
umbrage of which Tree, upon the afore-mentioned proportions, 
no lefs than 324 horfeSy or ^'^j^ men, may fufficiently be ftiel- 
ter'd. 
47. And thefe are the Trm m.oft capacious without ; fomeo- 
thers there are that have given fiielter within the hollow of their 
trunks : Mr. £z^^/{/;z tells us of one', fomwhere in Gloccfier- flfire^ 
that contains within its bowels a prety wainfcoted Room, en- 
lightened with windows, and furnifli'd with feats, isrc w^hich I 
fuppofe may have given reception to many An honeft Gentleman, 
Now though 'tis true we have none put to fo Honorable a ufe, yec 
the hollow Oak^ on Kidlington-gxttri^ for the neceilary and pub- 
lick fervice it has done , ought perhaps to have preference, 
though neither fo great nor gaudy ; it being frequently ufed be- 
fore the death of ]ndgt Morton (before whofe Houfe it flood) 
for the Imprifoning Vagabonds and other inferior MaJefa6iors^ for 
the fpace of a night or fo, till they conveniently might be had to 
the G oalzt Oxford : Of whom, the hollow is fo large within, that it 
would receive eight or ten commodioufly enough, the Tree with- 
out being 25 foot round above the spurs. 
48. Juft fuch another Prifon as this, as we are informed by 
Johan, Ferdinand Hertoda \ was made in Moravia^ in the trunk of 
a Willcw 27 foot round, in the Village of Moravan^ by a certain 
Judge of that Country : The extravagant growth of which Tree^ 
he attributes to the fertility of the whole Marquifate ; whereas I 
rather think (not but that the Country may be fertile enough) 
theextream rank growth of that, and of all other Plants fo ex- 
ceeding the ordinary courfe of Nature^ ought rather to be im- 
puted tofome more peculiar agreeablenefs of the refpedive foils 
and Plants^ than is ordinarily met with in any other places of th^ 
fame Country where-ever it be. 
* Tartaro-majiigis Moravia, part- \.cap. 17. 
49. On 
