PARLIAMENTARY SURVEY OF WIMBLEDON 323 
banqueting house, most of wood ; the model thereof containing a Banquet- 
fair round in the middle of four angles, covered with blue slate, in S 
and ridged and guttered with lead, wainscoted round from the House * 
bottom to the roof, varnished with green within and without, 
benched in the angles, having sixteen windows or covers of the 
same wainscot, to open or shut at pleasure, and having also 
sixteen half rounds of glass to enlighten the room when those T]ie 
covers are shut up ; the floor paved with painted tile in the angles, Garden, 
and with squared stone in the middle ; in one of which angles 
stands a table of artificial stone very well polished; and in every 
of the said angles, besides the said benches, there stands one 
wainscot chair. There are to the said banqueting house, two The 
double leaved doors, the one pair of which doors opens in the Higher 
very middle of the said tarras, the outside thereof being gilt, with Level - 
several coats of arms ; the other of the said leaved doors opens 
into a fair walk within the Park, planted with Elms and Lime 
trees, extending itself from the said banqueting house in a direct 
line eastward, to the very Park pale. The round of the said 
banqueting house is handsomely arched ; within which thirteen 
heads or statues, gilded, stand in a circular form, adding very 
much to the beauty of the whole room. The materials of 
this house, the said table and chairs, we value to be worth 
£66. 13s. 4d. 
At the west end of the said turfed tarras there stands one Garden 
other Garden or Summer house, covered with blue slate, and House, 
ridged, and guttered with lead, wainscoted and benched round, 
paved with square tile ; in which stands one table of Ranee stone, 
set in a frame of wood. There are two doors belonging to this 
garden house, the one opening into the said tarras, and the other 
opening into the Churchyard, into an alley or walk therein, 
leading to the Church door, planted on either side thereof with 
Sicamore trees. The materials of this house, and the said table, 
we value to be worth £13. 6s. 8d. 
Betwixt the ascent from the said Lower Level and the said 
turfed tarras, there are on each side of the gravelled alley that 
leads from that ascent to the said tarras, three grass plot walks 
planted with fruit trees of divers sorts and kinds, both pleasant 
for taste and profitable for use ; the borders of which grass plots 
are Coran 1 trees ; the value of which trees and borders doth 
herein and hereafter appear in the several particulars thereof ; 
the value of the grass plots being comprised in the foresaid yearly 
value of the whole Upper Garden. 
In the South of the said turfed tarras there are planted one Maze, 
great Maze, and one Wilderness, which being severed with one 
1 Currant. 
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