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INTRODUCTION. 
“ One Master Gutteridge drew for himselfe 
a giant standing in a gutter, and looking over 
the ridge of a house, which could not chuse 
but make Gutteridge .” 
The same author says “ A churchwarden ol 
Saint Martins in the Fields, I remember 
when I was in that parish, to expresse Saint 
Martins in the Fields, caused to be engraven 
a martin (a bird like a swallow) sitting upon 
a molehill betweene two trees, which was 
Saint Martins in the Fields. It is there yet 
to be seene upon the communion cup.” 
The celebrated Le Notre, who planted the 
gardens of Versailles, Saint Cloud, the Tuille- 
ries, the Champs Elysees, and several other 
royal pleasure grounds, was rewarded by a 
patent of nobility, by Louis the Fourteenth, 
on which occasion he chose for his arms a 
cabbage, with a spade and a rake for sup¬ 
porters ; alleging that he owed so many ob¬ 
ligations to gardening, that he would not 
