320 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
The 
Lower 
Level. 
Diana 
Fountain. 
Mermaid 
Fountain. 
the Hall of that Mansion House, containing in itself 4 several 
squares, having one fair and spacious gravelled walk, neatly 
ordered, running from East to West all along the said South side 
of the said Manor or Mansion House, being twenty-five foot 
broad and one hundred three score and ten yards long ; at 
either end of which Lower Level is one other gravelled walk 
running up in a regular form to the Upper or Higher Level. 
These three walks include within them the whole extent of the 
said lower level, and are comprised in the yearly value of the 
whole Garden. 
The said Lower Level is divided and cut out into 4 great squares, 
the two middlemost whereof contain within them eight several 
squares, and well ordered knotts, stored with the roots of very 
many and choice flowers ; bordered with box, well planted and 
ordered, in the points, angles, squares, and roundlets ; the four 
innermost quarters thereof being paved with Flanders bricks 
in the intervals, spaces, or little walks thereof ; which knotts, 
borders, and roots of flowers, and the said Flanders bricks, we 
estimate to be worth £60. 
Up the middle of which eight knotts, runs one walk or alley 
of paved stone from the hall door of the said Manor or Mansion 
House to the foot of the ascent of the said Higher or Upper 
Level; containing in breadth 16 foot and in length 127 foot; the 
stones whereof we value to be worth £20. 
The said eight knotts are compassed about on three sides 
thereof with very handsome rails, piked with spired posts in every 
corner and angle, all of wood, varnished with white, [which] 
very much adorns and sets forth the Garden ; all along the insides 
of which rails grow divers Cypress trees in a very decent order, 
having the outsides bordered with choice and pleasant flowers ; 
in the two angles of which rails inwards stand two stone statues 
of good ornament; which rails, spired posts, and statues we 
estimate to be worth £29. 8s. 
In the middle of the 4 of the foresaid eight knotts which lie 
on the West side of the said pavement, there stands one Fountain 
of white marble, having a statue of Diana upon it, and a fair 
lead cistern belonging to it, from whence runs a channelled 
pavement of stone into the Birdcage, being shadowed round with 
twelve Cherry trees, which stand in the points and angles of 
those four knotts ; which fountain, statue, cistern, and channelled 
pavement we estimate to be worth £y. 
In the middle of the 4 knotts which lie on the East side of 
the said pavement, there is one other Fountain of white marble, 
having a statue of a mermaid upon it, and a cistern of lead, 
being also shadowed round with twelve Cherry trees, which stand 
