Note 6 — FOOTNOTES:

This was the case until quite recently; but towards the end of 1893, the late Mr. Hutchinson Browne, of Moor Close, Binfield, caused the words, "Here Pope Sung," to be once more cut in the bark of a tree growing on the site as Pope's wood. And underneath them he affixed a brass plate inscribed with the following elegant copy of verses in Latin and English, which I was fortunate in obtaining for him from the pen of the Rev. Charles Stanwell, Vicar of Ipsden, Oxon:—

"Angliacis resonare modis qui suasit Homerum Hic cecinit laudes, Vindelisora, tuas; Hinc Silvae nomen vates dedit; arboris olim Inciso testis cortice truncus evat. Silva diu periit, sed nomen et umbra supersunt. Umbra viri circum, nomen ubique volat." "He to our Lyre who wooed great Homer's strain, Here sang the praise of Windsor's sylvan reign; Hence gained the wood a poet's name; of old The attesting trunk, inscribed, the story told. The wood hath perished, but surviving still His shade these haunts, his name the world doth fill."—C.W. P.