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twenty acres of which are annually felled for poles,' 
&c. 
Cranbroke Wood, belonging to Mrs. Mercer, in 
Newington, has the chelnut in plenty with other trees, 
which produce poles in abundance, from old flubs 
and flools. 
The Squirrel Wood, the property of the Hon., 
Mr. Roper, in the parifh of Stockbury; thofe called 
Long Tun and Binbury, contain plenty of chefnut, 
intermixed with other trees, in which are very large 
chefnut pollards ^ to appearance fome hundred years 
Handing ; which grow on a poor foil, and are quite 
hollow Hiells, having no nourifhment but from the 
rind or bark ; yet throw out plenty of flioots from 
the roots. 
I have a farm in the parifli of Stockbury, called 
Nettlefled, forty acres of which are tithe free, which 
portion of tithes belonged to the great monaflery of 
St. Auflin, fituated without the walls of Canterbury. 
They were given in very ancient times to the ufe 
of the almonary or almonry of that-abbey ; as far 
back as the time of Archbilhop Walter, in the year 
1193, how long before is uncertain, and are men- 
tioned by William Thorn, a monk of that houfe, and 
publiOied by Sir Roger Twifden, in the Decern Scrip- 
tores ; part of thefe tithes are woodland, and to this 
day called Almery or Ambry-Tanton.. In this wood 
are very old flools of chefnut, fome of which are 
ten feet circumference, and Hand promifcuoufly withi 
oak, afh, and other trees. Thefe flools yet pro- 
duce very good poles, which were felled once in my 
father’s time, and have twice, fince they have been 
in my poirefTion,. 
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