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If it be fHll contended, however, that this grant of 
tithe includes the whole forefl; of Dean, I have been • 
in almoft every part of it, and can take upon myfelf 
to fay, that there are not the leaft veftiges of any fuch 
tree at prefent. 
Dr. Ducarel next relies upon a manor in the 
neighbourhood of Sittingbourne being called Chafle- 
nye or Caftenye, from the circumflance of its being 
fuppofed to be amongft chefnut woods. 
This, however, is a fingle indance of fuch a name 
to any place in England ; and therefore the chefnuts 
being indigenous can be no more inferred from it, 
than that box naturally grows in this country, from 
the name of Box-hill, in Surrey. 
Now we happen to know that this hill was fo 
called from an Earl of Arundel’s having introduced 
this tree there, in the time of James or Charles the 
Firft^j and, from many circumftances, I fhould fup- 
pofe that the chefnut plantations near Sittingbourne 
are not of a much more ancient date. 
Dr. Ducarel then mentions two very fine chefnut- 
trees, which grow at Hagley in Worcederfliire ; this, 
however, only proves, that the owner of that edate, 
fome time ago, might think it worth while to plant 
them either for their beauty or their fruit. 
-X a This place (viz. Box-hill) was fiift planted by that fa- 
mous antiquary (the Earl of Arundel), with box wood, de- 
“ figning to have built a houfe there ; but want of water made 
“ him alter his refolution, and build ohe at Albury, hard by ; 
“ now belonging to the Earl of A)'lesford.” Journey through 
England, vol. I. printed in 1722. 
See alfo the Article Box-Hill, in an Account of the Environs 
of London, printed for Dodfley. 
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