32 ThehiFEof Mr. RAY. 
among Mr. Ray & Notes in thefe Years ; 
•viz. OSiober the 14th, 1669. 
rode to fee the famous Fir-trees., fome 
tv:o Miles and a Half difant from 
Newport, in a Village called Ware- 
ton (in Shropfliire) in the Land of 
Mr. Skrimlliaw. Lhere are of them 
’Thirty-fve in Number, very tall and 
firait, voithout any Boughs, till to- 
wards the Lop. The greatef, and 
which feems to have bee/i the Mother 
of the ref, we found, by Meafure, 
to be Fourtee 7 i Feet a 77 d an half 
round the Body, and they fay Fifty- 
fx Yards high', which to me feemed 
not incredible. Lhe Letiani’ s Nafne 
of the Houfe, clofe by thefe Fh'-trees, 
is Fir-child, whofe A?icefors have been 
Lenarits to it for ma 7 ty Getter atio 77 s. 
The next Year, viz. in the Spring 
of 1671, Mr. was afflicted with 
a feveriflr Diforder, wdiich ended in 
the 
