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four hundred acres, which is ftill denominated 
chefnut : though neither chefnut, nor any other 
“ kind of tree is to be feen there, excepting what 
we call underwood or coppice, moftly hazel. In- 
“ deed in many places of the foreft, I find chefnut 
“ trees are (fparingly) to be met with ^ but within 
“ a few yards of the above fpot, in a wood of my 
“ nephew, are many of remarkable fine growth.’* 
But, even if the fadl had been as Mr. Barrington hath 
dated if, the faith of a record attefting the exiftence 
of chefnut trees formerly, in the foreft of Dean, was 
fjrely not to be fuperfeded by the non-exiftence of 
fuch trees at prefent; they might have exifted former- 
ly, though they do not exifl at prefent. And the 
record explicitly allures us that they did exift, and 
as early at lead as the reign of Henry the Second. 
The chefnut tree, therefore, may dill claim a na- 
tural relation to this ifland, notwithdanding the two 
arguments of Mr. Barrington againd it : and if we 
look into this kingdom, we fee the chefnut tree, not 
confined to Sittingbourne woods, or to Dean foredj 
but fcattered with a free hand, through many parts 
thereof ; fliooting up with all the healthy vigour of 
genuine natives, and giving denomination to feveral 
places amongd us. Thus the chefnut wood of Sit- 
tingbourne, has given the name of Chefnut-dreet, 
to the neighbouring road ; and the old Saxon half 
of the name. Street, drongly intimates the other half 
to be very ancient. The appellation occurs in the 
fird map, that notices the names of the, roads, the 
map of Kent by Morden. In Hertford fbi re is a 
town, called in old writings, Chedon, Chedhunte, 
Shederhunte, and Cedrehunt j and Norden (in his 
defcription 
