404 The Jottriial of Forestry. 



was 3,158 loads, the produce of which, with the bark and offal 



wood, amounted to £8,986 17 4 



Fees, poundages, and expenses ... ... 1,338 8 3 



Clear produce of navy timber to that time ... £7,648 9 1 

 From 1786 to 1790 navy timber was cut as follows: — 2,304 trees, 

 2,572 loads, and 19 feet, square measure, which, at the then customary 

 measure of £1 18s. per load, together with the tops, bark, &;c. 

 amounted to ... ... ... ... ... £7,111 16 4 



2,022 dotard and decayed oaks, and 331 ash 



trees sold for payment of officers' salaries ... 1,437 14 10 



8,549 11 2 

 Less expenses, salaries, &c. ... ... ... 2,496 1 



Clear produce since 178G ... £6,053 10 2 



Ditto of navy timber, 1772 to 1786 7,648 9 1 



£13,701 19 



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Less for expenses, salaries, Arc. ... ... 1,353 1 4^ 



£12,348 17 10|- 



And this sum shews the clear produce to the Crown since the forest 

 was in the hands of the Grafton family, being eighty-five years, at 

 about an average of about £145 5s. 7d. a year. 



In 1783 there were growing in this forest, of trees 30 feet and up- 

 wards, yielding navy timber, 5,211, measuring 7,230 loads, square 

 measure ; and of dotard, decayed, &c., 502, containing 569 loads, 

 square measure. By the same survey it appears that there were 

 18,617 trees in the forest constantly lopped for the browse of the 

 deer, viz., 6,335 oaks, computed to contain 8,907 loads of timber, 

 square measure, and 12,282 ash trees, containing 3,512 loads ; so 

 that the number and quantity of the browsed oaks was greater 

 than that reported to be fit for the navy, of which the number 

 in the coppices was not quite more than three trees to every 

 two acres of land. Between the years 1772 and 1783 there 

 had been felled for the navy 1,461 trees, producing 1,335 loads. If 

 these be added to the trees growing in the coppices at the time of the 

 survey, the number would be still less than two trees to every acre ; 

 and if the browse oaks be taken into computation, the whole number 

 of the trees of thirty feet and upwards would be little more than three 

 trees to an acre. 



The decay of this forest is attributed to a divided management, part 

 being Crown property and part granted to the Dukes of Grafton, 



