...SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STYLES 79 wherein he quotes authority by authority, holds a mirror to seventeenth-century life. At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five-and-twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed...

...heath, swamp, and warren.1 In the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for the Grand Duke Cosmo, scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous...rich with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain.2 At Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of five and twenty...

...heath, swamp, and warren. t In the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for the Grand Duke Cosmo, scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous...tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as * King's Natural and Political Conclusions. Davenant on the Balance of Trade. t See the Itinerarium...

...heath, swamp, and warren. t In the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for the Grand Duke Cosmo, scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous...tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as * King's Natural and Political Conclusions. Davenant on the Balance of Trade. t See the Itinerarium...

...with furze or fens abandoned to wild ducks.' Three-fifths of the country was still in open fields ; at ' Enfield, hardly out of sight of the smoke of...and twenty miles in circumference which contained only three houses and scarcely any- enclosed fields.' The amount of waste land was very large. Gregory...

...scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous tracts, now rich with cultivation, appear as bare as 5 Salisbury Plain.* At Enfield, hardly out of sight...and twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields. Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered...

...Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke of York what we thought and had observed in the " scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous tracts,...with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain." Sir John Reresby writes: "April, 1669. The Prince of Tuscany came to London with a retinue and equipage...

...Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke of York what we thought and had observed in the " scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous tracts,...with cultivation, appear as bare as Salisbury Plain." Sir John Reresby writes: "April, 1669. The Prince of Tuscany came to London with a retinue and equipage...

...was made over to three maids of honour to the Queen. Centuries later, that is in 1685, Enfield, now hardly out of sight of the smoke of the capital, was a region of twenty-five miles in circumference, in which deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered by thousands....

...heath, swamp, and warren. In the drawings of English landscapes made in that age for the Grand Duke Cosmo, scarce a hedgerow is to be seen, and numerous...and twenty miles in circumference, which contained only three houses and scarcely any enclosed fields. Deer, as free as in an American forest, wandered...