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<< of the abbey of Flaxley, in Gloucefterfhire, 
“ by his charter, printed in Dugdale’s monafticon, 
“ tom. i. p. 884. gave the monks there, the tythe 
“ of the chefnuts in the foreft of Deane, which is 
“ not above feven or eight miles from Rudhall. 
“ l"he words, are Singulis annis tot am dccimam cajla- 
neariim de Dena. In the court before the honfe 
“ at Haslev Hall, in VVorcefterfliire, the feat of 
“ Lord Lyttelton, are two vaft fweet chefnut trees, 
“ which feem to be at leaft two, if not three hun- 
“ dred years old ; and Mr. Evelyn, in his Sylva, p. 
“ 232. mentions one, of an enormous fize, at Tortf- 
worth, in Gloucefterfhire, which hath continued 
‘‘ a fignal boundary to that manor, from King Ste- 
phen’s time, as it ftands upon record ; and which 
“ tree is ftill living, and furrounded by many young 
“ ones, that have come up from the nuts dropped 
“ by the parent tree. Mr. Evelyn alfo affures us, 
“ that he had a barn framed intirely of chefnut tim- 
‘‘ ber, which had been cut down in its neighbour- 
“ hood. In the foreft of Kent, adjoining to Sudex, 
“ there dill remains feveral large old chefnut dubbs, 
“ which were left by the woodmen as termini, or 
“ boundaries, either of paridies, or private property. 
“ Befides this, there are to this day, in the North 
“ Ead part of Kent, feveral large woods, confiding 
“ principally of chefnut trees and dubs. In the 
“ paridi of Milton, near Sittingborne, is a manor 
“ called Norwood Cadehey, otherwife Chedeney, 
from its fitnation among chefnut woods, which 
“ reach to the highway from London to Dover, and 
“ give name to a hill between Newington and Sit- 
tingborne, it being called Chefnut Hill, the chef- 
“ nut 
