Ffrom Epsham I went to Banstead where the parson of the Parish has diverted himself in his garden these fifty yeares, is now old and doates, but has Curious hedges, one Garden w^{th} Grass plotts and Earth walks Cut and wedd. His grass plotts has stones of divers fformes and sizes which he names Gods and Goddesses; and hedges and arbours of thorn soe neately Cut, and in all ffigures in great rounds. One is a Large arbour: You Enter a straite passage as unto a Cell, but within a roome, round y^t by a narrow Entry you Come to a Large Square with trees and seates, all quick sett hedges cut fine. One is a tree w^{ch} the ivy has Covered and there are staires up directly upright, and on y^e top is an Eight square Bench—round, the Green grows up Close about it cut even, this he Calls “Tenneriff” being in that fform. Next it is another tree, there is a fflatt and on it is a table or stoole on w^{ch} is a Great white stone in form of some statue that apole w^{th} 9 stones round less the muses—this is Parnassus. There are severall heads painted w^{ch} are named Mogul Grand Seignior, Cham of Tartary, Zarr of Muscovy, placed in severall places. Another Garden is Grass plotts w^{th} yews and holly Lawrells, round this on the bank is sett stones very thick, some very much bigger for officers, this is the whole Confederate army and their Generalls. Here is a trumpeter, Hercules and Bacchus and a hedge of Lawrell 7 foote broad. Here are also two trees Cover’d with Ivy and thorne Cut smooth and made in ffashion of two great pillars for Hercules pillars. There is in y^e middle some platted together and makes a Cover to a seate below, and there is a Rose Cut out—you may talk as under the Rose. In his house he has many Curiosetyes of stones, one like a brick of bread, another Like a shoulder of mutton, a piece of wood from an old tree as Like a mounteer capp w^{th} a button on the top, another like a furbellow’d peticoat, another stone like an apple paired and a piece Cut out and grown Deadish—its said this is Petrify’d into stone as the moss in Knarsborough and the wood at Apsley in Bedfordshire; here were many Shells, Birds, jndian shoes, bootes, purses &c.