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covers more than three hundred acres of land. In 
one part of Chefnut wood, upon the hanging banks 
of Chefnut-ftreet, and in the way from Kay-ftreet to 
Stockbury, are now the remains of large chefnut 
trees and pollards, which w’ere plainly planted by 
the bold irregular hand of nature. 
I had alfo mentioned a grant (or rather a confir- 
mation of a grant) made to the abbey of Flexeley, 
which was the tithe of chelhuts in the forefi: of 
Dean ; “ totam Decimam Cafianearum de Dena.” 
But Mr. Barrington objedls to the fuppofition “ of 
“ Dena, in the record, meaning the foreft of Dean, 
“ as there are fo many places of the name of Dean 
“ in the kingdom.” This however is furely an ob- 
iedion of no weight. The Ciftertian abbey of Flexe- 
ley, or Dene, was adually fituated in the foreft of 
Dean (2), and was anciently called Flaxlyn abbey 
of St. Mary de Dean (3). This abbey, together with 
Dean Magna (alias Mitchell Dean), and Dean Parva, 
all lie in the fame hundred with the foreft (the 
hundred of Saint Briannell), and are included in the 
ccciefiaftical deanery, called Foreft: where, therefore 
can the Dene of Flexely be placed, but at the foreft 
in which it was fituated, and from which it derived 
half of its appellation ? And what pretence can a 
Dene in Hampftiire, or a Dean in Lancaftiire, have 
to a place in a record, which relates only to the 
abbey of Saint Mary deDene, in the foreft of Dean? 
But all fuch reafonings are unnecefiary : the point is 
afcertained beyond the poffibility of a doubt, by 
Henry the Second’s confirmation of the original 
(2) Tanner’s Notitia, p. 147. 
(3) Atkin’s Gloucefter&ire, p. 288. Edit. 1768. 
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