204 ^^^^ JoiLVJial of Forest}'}'. 



Lower Normandy which was planted in 1066. Near Warblington, 

 Hants, is one 27 feet in circumference. Crowhurst, Surrey, has one 

 30 feet 6 inches. At Leeds is one 31 feet round. Inchbrakie, near 

 Crieff, Perthshire, has the second largest yew in Scotland, which 

 during a season of peril sheltered the great Montrose in its dense 

 branches on one occasion. Of all these, Fortingall, Glen Lyon, Perth- 

 shire, bears the bell. In 1772 it measured 57 feet in circumference. 

 Considering the slow nature of its growth, Pennant's tree at Fortingall 

 must have been a wonderful sapling at the beginning of the 

 Christian era I Evelyn saw the hills of Surrey clad with yews. The 

 Darley yew, Derbyshire, is reported to be the largest in the world. 

 Besides being a charm for driving away the devil, a doctrine in- 

 culcated by monkish superstition, the tree was venerated in the early 

 ages. At one time it was a stipulation in the trade for merchants to 

 import from abroad annually so many rods of yew for bows. 



L. FiTT. 



Expenses of Carriage on Timber to tiie 

 Portsmouth Dockyards in 1792. 



The Commissioners appointed to enquire into this and other kindred 

 subjects at the above date, report as follows : The supply to Portsmouth 

 from the New Forest was the principal one, and therefore being so near 

 it was not tabulated, as it was probably thought that that forest must 

 be exhausted before any great drain was made on the others. The 

 freight from New Forest to Portsmouth was, however, 15s, l^d. per ton, 

 and from the other forests as follows : — 



From Alice Holt £'L 8 



