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A DISCOURSE

Book III. Raglmd, Rutford, Ragbey, AhVof ?

lyYV 1 Sherborn, Sher ley, Swallow fie Id, Shasford', Shaftsbury , Stansted,

Scots-hall, Sands of the ? -

Theobalds, Thorn-kill, Thorny ?

Vp-Bark .?

Wilton, Wrest, Woburn , /F elbeck, Workfiop, Woodstock, which, asCambden tells us, was the first Park in England ; as it is like to be oneot" the most magnificent and princely Enlaces and of that *//«-

strious Hero , his Grace the of Marlboroagh, to whose Courage

and Con duel not the Safety of the Empire alone, but of Europe is due,whilst the Actions at Bleinheim and Schellemberg may challenge equalTrophies with Miltiades and Ca;Jar, at Marathon and Bh ar fall a.But to proceed, Wimburn, Writtle-Bark ?

And generally all those Seats which go under the Names of Castlesand Halls (as in Torkjhire, Essex, &c.) were stored with noble Parksfull of Timber, omitted here •, which, but to have named, would over-fwell the Alphabet ; without reckoning those of Ireland, which fewYears since was an inexhaustible Magazine of Timber, destroyed by theCromwellian Rebels, not only in that Kingdom, but through all Eng-land ; As to Barks, there were more in this Nation than in all Eu-rope betide : And most of all that Catalogue above-named, have yettheir Barks full of good Timber-trees , industriously improved by theOwners, fince the Spoil of the late Usurpers and Sequejirators.

To these should I add the vast Forests (most of them belonging tothe Crown) as that of Heane, New-Forest, Windsor, AJhdown, Leo-nard, Sherewood, Epping, Banbet, Chute, Stc. Forests for the mostJ»art without Trees, and several of them together heretofore compre-hended in that vast Andradfiwald already mentioned, of one Countyonly. There were formerly twenty Groves in Clarendon-Bark nearSalisbury, celebrated by Mefiokerus, cited by Cambden, that wereevery one of them a Mile in compass. In a Word, to give an Instanceof what Store of Woods and Timber of prodigious Size, there weregrowing in our little County of Surrey (the nearest of any to London)and plentifully furnished both for Profit and Pleasure (with sufficientGrief and Reluctancy I speak it) my own Grandfather had standing atWotton , and about that Estate, Timber, that now were worth iooooo/*Since of what was left my Father (who was a great Brefierver of Wood)there has been 30000 I. worth of Timber fallen by the Ax, and theFury of the late Hurricane and Storm : Now no more Wotton, ft r *P tand naked, and ashamed almost to own its Name.

All which considered (for there are many other Places and Est ateSwhich have suffered the like Calamity) should raise, methinks, a neWSpirit of Industry in the Nobility and Gentry of die whole Nati° n »Nek™, c.ii,like that which Nehemiah inspired the Nobles as well as the Reopl eiv. v. 1 s. 0 f t h e Captivity (than which nothing so much resembled that tedious

Slavery, and Return from it, than did the Restoration ofCharles 11 .) Let us arise up (fays the brave Man) and build', and ftthey jlrengthened their Hand, for the Beople had a Mind to the W or P’And such an universal Spirit and Resolution to fall to plantings ^° rthe repairing of our wooden Walls and Castles, as well as of outEstates, should truly animate us: Let us arise then and plant, arlnot give it over till we have repaired the Havock our barbarous Ene-mies have made : Pardon then this Zeal, O ye Lovers of vour Conn"

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