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book hi. Graystock, Goodwood, Grooby, Grafton, Golden-Grove?

Holdenby, Haddon, Hornby, Hatfield, Haland, Hothfield, Hinton,Holm-Pierpont, Horstmonceaux?

Inchingfield ?

Kirby, Knowsley ?

Longleat, Latham, Lensal, Latimer, Lawnsbrough ?

More-Park, Mulgrave, Marlborough ?

Normanby, North-Hall, Norborough, Newnhara?

St. Ostlo, Oxnead ?

Petworth, Penshurst, Paston-Hall ?

Querendon, Quickswood ?

Ragland, Rutford, Ragbey, Ricot,?

Sherborn, Sherley, Swallowfield, Shasford, Shaftsbury, Stansted, Scots-Hall, Sands of the Vine ?

Theobalds, Thorn-kill, Thorny, Up-Park?

Wilton, Wrest, Woburn, Welbeck, Worksop, Woodstock, (which, asCamden tells us, was the first Park in England) as it is like to be one ofthe most magnificent and princely palaces and seats of that illustrious Hero,his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, to whose courage and conduct notthe safety of the Empire alone, but of Europe , is due, whilst the actionsat Blenheim and Schellenberg may challenge equal trophies with Mil-

tiades and Caesar, at Marathon and Pharsalia ?-But to proceed, Wim-

Jburn, Writtle-Park ?

And generally, all those seats which go under the names of Castles andHalls, as in Yorkshire , Efsex, &c. were stored with noble parks full oftimber, omitted here; which, but to have named, would over-swell thealphabet; without reckoning those of Ireland , which a few years since wasan inexhaustible magazine of timber destroyed'by theCromwellian Rebels,not only in that kingdom, but through all England: As to parks, therewere more in this nation than in all Europe beside: And most of all thatcatalogue above-named, have yet their parks full of good timber-trees,industriously improved by.the Owners, since the spoil of the late Usurpers and Sequestrators.

To these shoiild'I add the vast forests, (most of them belonging to the■Crown) as that of Dean, New-Forest, Windsor,' Ashdown, Leonard,