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to give them omnia afiamenta in eadem forejia mea de 
Dend j and then he particularly fubjoins, et de eadem 
forejia dedi eis Decimam Cajianearum meariim. Can 
any words poffibly be more explicit than thele ? And 
can Mr. Barrington aver againil the teftimony of an 
authentic record? But, though the Dena of the re- 
cord does mean the foreft of Dean, Mr. Barring- 
ton has ftill an objedion in referve; and afferts that 
“ there are not the leaft vefliges of any fuch trees in 
“ this foreft at prefent.” (p. 29.) But is Mr. Bar- 
rington fure there are no veftiges of chefunt trees 
in the foreft ? Did Mr. Barrington infped: into every 
part of this ample area ? And did no trees, no 
flumps, no ftools, efcape his eye in this wide un- 
bounded range ? But the fa£l appears otherwife. 
There are not merely flumps, not merely flools, of 
chefnut trees j but adual and abfolute trees of chef- 
nut exifting at this day, in the foreft of Dean. 
In a letter to me, dated Dec. 10, 1770, from 
the Rev. Mr. William Crawley, refident at, and 
minifter of Flaxley (uncle to Thomas Crawley 
Bovey, Efq; the prefent owner -of Flaxley abbey) ; 
is the following account : — “ In this very foreft and 
near Flaxley is a parcel of land, about three or 
dedi Deo et beatae Marlas et monachis meis Deo devote fervlen- 
tibus, habenda et tenenda imperpetuum, foluta et quieta ab 
omni reguardo et exa£lione feculari. Quare volo, &c. Teftc 
Ricardo de Humet, Willielmo de Creveca, Philippo de Co- 
lumbariis, Willielmo de An :ervi!l, apud Evefliam. (Monafticon 
Anglicanum, Tom. I. p. 884). 
Pat. 22 R. II. Dart 3. m. 16. per Infpex. Vide Cart, antiq. 
N. N. 30. Et pat. 27 H, VI. par. I. m. 9. 
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