. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. the day which was to be her last (May19th, 1536) he went to hunt in that district ; and as he breakfasted, surrounded byhis train and his hounds, under a spreading oak which is still shown, he listenedfrom time to time with a look of intense anxiety. At length the sound of adistant gun boomed through the wood. It was a preconcerted signal, and marked .THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX. 97 the moment when the execution was completed. Ah, ah it is done, said he,starting up, the business is done ; uncouple the dogs, and let us follow thesport. On
. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. the day which was to be her last (May19th, 1536) he went to hunt in that district ; and as he breakfasted, surrounded byhis train and his hounds, under a spreading oak which is still shown, he listenedfrom time to time with a look of intense anxiety. At length the sound of adistant gun boomed through the wood. It was a preconcerted signal, and marked .THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX. 97 the moment when the execution was completed. Ah, ah it is done, said he,starting up, the business is done ; uncouple the dogs, and let us follow thesport. On the succeeding morning he was married to Jane Se3nTiour. Lock, in his Essay Concerning the Human Understanding,(1825 Ed., p. 243) refers to this oak: The well-known tree inEpping Forest called the Kings Oak, which, from not weighing anounce at first, grew to have many tons of timber in it. The treehas long since disappeared. An inn called the Kings Oakindicates the locality where it formerly stood. Fainnead Oak.—At High Beach there is still a fine oak at. Fig. 4.—Cuckoo ok Bedford Oak, Efping Fokest. Fairmead Lodge. Its bole measures 29 ft. and 30 ft. in cir-cumference at different heights. The tree and the Lodge wereillustrated by Mr. H. A. Cole in The Essex Naturalist for 1893(Vol. vii., p. 86). ^ Cuckoo orBedford (9^/^.—We have also in Epping Forest an oak tree formerly called the Cuckoo Oak, but more recently I named Bedford Oak, in honour of the Councillor of the City of London of that name who did so much towards rescuing Epping * I am indebted for this extract to Mr. B. G. Cole. 98 THE OAK TREE IN ESSEX.
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