Dear Madam, It was Edward I who made the law for planting yew trees in Church yards, at least so I was told by a gentleman who never makes mistakes, and is deeply read in history. I have looked in vain in Evelyn’s silva and Loudon’s arboretum, but I think his information to be trusted. He says it had been done long before, but it was only in Edwd I’s reign that it became the subject ... continue reading