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difcriptlon of Hertfordfliire, p. i 5,) fays, Cur non 
(5^ Chep^in ? Caftanetum of ChelTe-nut trees ? 
The Saxons were well acquainted with this tree, 
and, according to Skinner and Lye, called it Cyprei 
and Cypz-beam 5 the fame word evidently with our 
prefent Chef-nut. Dr. Johnfon, in his Mercurius 
BotanicuSy 1634, remarks the chefnut to have been, 
not unfrequent in the woods, as well as in the plan- 
tations, of his own times ; Cajianea Vulgaris in fyhis 
non 72 ullis ef viridariis\ — Mr. Dale, in his Hijiory of 
Harwich, mentions various chefnut trees to be grow- 
ing in Stour wood, within the parifli immediately 
adjoining to Harwich. Blackftone, in his Specimen 
Botanicum, p. 12. fpeaks of chefnut trees growing 
in (6) Bulwin woods, between Dartford and Bexley, 
in Kent, plentifully j not twenty miles diftant from 
London. Mr. Philipot, in his Villare Cantianum, 
which was printed in 1659, P* ^ 37 * “ There 
is a manor, called Northwood Chafteners, which^N«. 
“ name complies with the lituation ; for it ftands North 
from the town, in a wood where chefnut trees 
“ formerly grew in abundance.” “ The noble chef- 
“ nut tree, lays Morton, (Northamptonfhire, p. 397.) 
belonging to the Wordiipful Thomas Tryft, Efqj 
of Marford, is the largeff of that kind I have any 
where feen : the body of it is no lefs than fifteen 
“ feet eight inches in circumference ; and it extends 
its branches proportionably.” “ On the outfide of 
“ the Roman Ration at Temple Brough, near Sheffield, 
“ in Yorkfhire, fays Gibfon’s Camden, (Vol. II. p. 
“ 847.) “ is a large bank, upon which are huge trees, 
and upon the fide of the bank of the highway, 
(3) Cheflin, (6) Now Baldwyn Woods. 
XJ 2 there 
