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have been formerly much higher, for I have obferved 
Oaks and other Trees, where the prefent Soyl is fo much 
fhrunk and fetled from them, that they hand upon high 
Stilts, and are fupported from the great Fibres of the 
Roots, fothat Sheep-may eafily creep under them. 
That great T raft, called formerly Vafla Regalis, is now 
by Draining become good Pafturage, and yields my Lord 
Gower, the Owner of it, a confiderable Rent, his Ance- 
ftors having purchafed the Royalty from one of the Earls 
of Shrewsbury : It yields great Quantities of Hay , thomuch 
of it is of fuch a nature, that it will dry up anew Milch- 
Cow, ftarve an Horfe, yet will it feed an Oxe to admi- 
ration ; and I have heard fome Grafiers fay, they could 
not by their heft Upland Hay feed an Oxe fo fat, as the 
Moor- Hay would do$ this, I fuppofe proceeded from its 
dry and binding Quality that made the Oxen drink 
much. 
One thing I muft further obferve to you, within the 
Pariih, about half a Mile from the Church, there is a pretty 
Farm call’d The Wall, which I judge was formerly a Bri- 
tijb Fortification $ 5 tis encompaffed with a Morafs, and 
raifed up from Sand, broken Stones, Gravel, and Rubbilh 
to a great height and breadth, being ("as I meafured it) 
above 1500 Yards in Compafs, and 16, 18, and 20 Yards 
in Breath : In fome places it feems to have been Built 
before the Moors became B&ggy, for I could never find 
any way over the Moors, by which they could carry thofe 
vaft Quantities of Earth, Clay, Sand and Rubbifh to raife 
that mighty Rampire. In that Parifh I was the Sixth 
Rector from the Days of Henry VIII. 
As to my Re&ory of Donington, to which I was pre- 
fer, ted Anno 1690. I found there as many Old People as I 
did at Kinnardfey, nay, I may fay more 5 and in the two 
Parities I had but a difference of three in the Number of 
the People ; at Kinnardfey I had 135 Souls, at Donington 
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