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it lying five miles within Buckingham-Jlire ' as on the other ficle 
feveral raridies of Berkshire^ Buckingham-Jhire^ and IVorcefier- 
Jlnre^ are placed within Oyford-fiire. How thele things come 
to pafs we have little of certainty, but in all probability this 
Lillinfyfion was accounted in OxfordpArc for the fake of the Lords 
Loveh^ whofe Inheritance, from the addition, wt may conclude 
it once was ; who being powerful we« inthefe parts, and not un- 
likely moft times the Kings Lieutenants^ might have permifTioa to 
reckon this their own EJiate, within their own Jurifdi^uoi as 
part of Oy^ford fiire \ as I fuppofe all other /'dfrz/^^gy thus placed 
outof the body of their Counties^ may alfo have been. 
86. From this necefTary,^ and therefore I hope pardonable di- 
grefTion, \ proceed to fome Fruit-trees rot ordinary elfewhere, 
fuch as the double-bearing Pear-trees : whereof I met with one in 
the Parilli of Hnfdey^ at a place called Latch for d^ in the Hort- 
yard of Mr. Gooding^ called the Fear of Fnradice^ whofe firft 
Crop is ripe about Midfurnmer^ and the fecond at Michaelmap, 
There is alfo another of thefe, bur of a different kind, in the 
Parifli of Stanlake at the Chequer -Inn ^ called the Hundred-found 
Pear, which Bloffoms at two diilrind times, and bears two Crops, 
whereof it has both forts (much like the Fig) upon the Tree at 
a time, forne ripe, and others green. But in both thefe //ecj, 
the Pe?.r3 in the fecond Crops are fomwhat lefs than of the firil, 
and gro^ both a.^ter a peculiiir manner, moft of them, if nor all, 
comin;; forth at the ends of the twigs, which are all the pedicles 
they feern to have ; and therefore on the tree they do cot hang 
downwards, like thofe of the firit Crop, but point up in the air-, 
or any other way the flioots direct them. 
87. At Corpus Chrifi College they have a fort of Pear-tree^ that 
bears Fruit in hardnefs little inferior to the younger shoots of 
the very tree that bears them ; and therefore not undefervedly by 
fome called the Wooden- fear^ though in wet years I have known 
them pretty foft ' but generally they are fo found, and of fo un- 
alterable a conftitution, thatl have now fome by me that were fea- 
fonably gather'd, above ten years old, as hard and firm as ever 
they were at nrft, only fomwhat lefs than when firft gather'd; 
for which very reafon, in fome parts of Worceiler-flire where they 
have plenty of thein, they are called Long-lafters^ being not fub- 
jed to rot like other Fears, 
88. And 
