Nevill, Esq.
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Yew trees naturally grow in chalkie countrys. The greatest plenty of
them, as I believe, in the west of England is at Nunton Ewetrees.
Between Knighton Ashes and Downton the ground produces them all along;
but at Nunton they are a wood. At Ewridge, in the parish of Colern, in
North Wilts (a stone brash and a free stone), they also grow
indifferently plentifull; and in the parish of Kington St Michael I
remember three or four in the stone brash and red earth.
When I learnt my accidents, 1633, at Yatton Keynel, there was a fair
and spreading ewe-tree in the churchyard, as was common heretofore.
The boyes tooke much delight in its shade, and it furnish't them with
their scoopes and nutt-crackers. The clarke lop't it to make money of
it to some bowyer or fletcher, and that lopping kill'd it: the dead
trunke remaines there still. (Eugh-trees grow wild about Winterslow.
A great eugh-tree in North Bradley churchyard, planted, as the
tradition goes, in the time of ye Conquest. Another in .... Cannings
churchyard. Leland (Itinerary) observes that in his time there was
thirty-nine vast eugh-trees in the churchyard belonging to
Stratfleur Abbey, in Wales.-BISHOP TANNER. Abundance of ewgh-trees in
Surrey, upon the downes, heretofore, th? now much diminished.-J.
EVELYN.)
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Box, a parish so called in North Wilts, neer Bathe, in which parish is
our famous freestone quarre of Haselbery: in all probability tooke its
name from the box-trees which grew there naturally, but now worne out.
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