WOKING, (Surrey) on the Wey r. near Ripley and Send-Heath, 20 cm. 24 mm. from London, was the seat of the countess of
Richmond, mother to Henry VII. where she ended her days. Here is a Mt. on T. and Fair Sept. 12, procured in 1660 by James
Zouch, Ld. of the T. (heir of Sir Edw. Zouch, Kt.-marshal in the R. of Ja. I.) who in 1665 built a neat Mt.-house at his
own charge, for the conveniency of the people who bring corn to it. Here is another Staple-Fair on Whitsun-Tu. procured of
Hen. VI. by the D. of Somerset. The heir of Mr. Zouch sold it to one Mr. Walker, who had a good house here, and a park
said to be 3 m. about. This place is half-way bet. Guilford and Weybridge, and gives name to a H. In the Ch.-yard here, it
has been remarked, that so long as there is any thing left of a corpse, besides bones, a kind of plant grows from it,
about the thickness of a bulrush, with a top like the head of asparagus, which comes near the surface of the earth, but
never above it, and when the corpse is quite consumed, the plant dies away. The same observation has been made in other
Ch.-yards, where the soil is a light red sand, as it is in this. The sexton here remarked, that coffins rot in this Ch.-
yard in 6 years, and in the Ch. in 18 years.