The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 4 (of 8)

Note K — THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE;

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"At a small distance from the great gateway stood the Prior's Oak, which was felled about the year 1720, and sold for 70l. According to the price of wood at that time, it could scarcely have contained less than 1400 feet of timber."—W. W. 1815.

This note is quoted from Whitaker.—Ed.

The place where this Oak tree grew is uncertain. Whitaker says it stood "at a small distance from the great gateway." This old entrance or gateway to the Abbey was through a part of the modern and now inhabited structure of Bolton Hall, under the Tower; and the old sexton at the Abbey told me that the tree stood near that gateway, at some distance from the ruins of the Abbey.—Ed.

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