THE TILFORD OAK.
[To Yu EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:]
propos of the Tilford Oak. No one has thought it worth while to give the actual words in which it is mentioned in the charter of Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, and brother of King Stephen, confirming the previous gift of Bishop William Giffard to the Abbey of Waverley, and reciting the boundaries. They are to be found in Dugdale,— " Monasticon," Vol. I., p. 703 :—" A quercu de Tileford qum vocatur King hoc [King's Oak] per viam regiam versus Farnham risque ad Wint,erborn, et inde per ripam glue currit de Farnham ad montem qua3 dicitur Richardis hulle, et per transversam illius montis ad pontem de Wansford usque ad pmtum de Tyleford quod dicitur Hucthamnes mede, et inde sursum directe ad prmdictam quercum."—I am, Sir, &c.,
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