The same descended to Sir Reignald Mohun, from his ancestours,
by their match with the daughter and heire of Fits-Williams;
and (amongst other commodities) is appurtenanced with a walk,
which if I could as playnly shew you, as my selfe haue oftentimes
delightingly seene it, you might, & would auow the same, to be a
place of diuersified pleasings: I will therefore do my best, to trace
you, a shaddow thereof, by which you shal (in part) giue a gesse at
the substance.
It is cut out in the side of a steepe hill, whose foote the salt water
washeth, euenly leuelled, to serue for bowling, floored with sand,
for soaking vp the rayne, closed with two thorne hedges, and banked
with sweete senting flowers: It wideneth to a sufficient breadth,
for the march of fiue or sixe in front, and extendeth, to not
much lesse, then halfe a London mile: neyther doth it lead
wearisomely forthright, but yeeldeth varied, & yet, not ouer-busie
turnings, as the grounds oportunity affoordeth; which aduantage
encreaseth the prospect, and is conuerted on the foreside,
into platformes, for the planting of Ordinance, and the walkers
sitting; and on the back part, into Summer houses, for their more
priuate retrait and recreation.
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