FIELD, (Staffordshire) on the r. Blythe, near Gratwich, was, in 1695, the manor of Sir John Bagot. Sir Harvey his
descendant had a witch-elm felled in his ground here, in 1680, so big, that 2 able workmen were 5 days in cutting it down,
for it was 40 yards in length, and, at the buttend, 17 in circumference; it was 25 feet 1-half in the middle, by girth
measure; 14 load of fire-wood, as much as 6 oxen could draw, broke off in the fall, and 47 as large loads were afterwards
cut off from the top. Two saws were joined together, and 5 men put to each end, to saw the body asunder. There were 80
pair of nathes for wheels cut out of it first; and out of the remainder 8000 feet of sawn timber, in boards and planks, at
6 score the hundred, which came to 12 l. for the sawing only. As these things might appear incredible, they were drawn up
in writing, at the time when the tree was felled, and attested by Sir Harvey the owner, his steward, bailiff, surveyor,
sawyers, &c.