In the middle of this hatt of trees (it
resembled a hatt) there was a tall beech, which overtopt all the rest.
The hatt was cutt down by Philip II. Earle of Pembroke, 1654; and
Thomas, Earle of Pembroke, disafforested it, an°. 1684.
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Birch. - Wee have none in North Wilts, but some (no great plenty) in
South Wilts: most by the New Forest (In the parish of Market Lavington
is a pretty large coppice, which consists for the most part of birch;
and from thence it is well known by the name of the Birchen coppice.-
BISHOP TANNER.)
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In the parish of Hilmerton, in the way from Calne, eastward, leaving
Hilmerton on the left hand, grows a red withy on the ditch side by the
gate, 10 feet 6 inches about; and the spreading of the boughs is
seaven yards round from the body of the tree.
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Wich-hazel in the hundred of Malmesbury and thereabout, spontaneous.
There are two vast wich-hazel trees in Okesey Parke, not much lesse
than one of the best oakes there.
At Dunhed St. Maries, at the crosse, is a wich-hazell not lesse worthy
of remarque than Magdalene-College oake (mentioned by Dr. Rob.
Plott), for the large circumference of the shadowe that it causeth.
When I was a boy the bowyers did use them to make bowes, and they are
next best to yew.
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Hornbeam we have none; neither did I ever see but one in the west of
England, and that at Bathwick, juxta Bath, in the court yard of Hen.
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