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V. — Beaureper Warde. 

 In Beaureper Warde there is one wood called 

 (a) Swinney Wood, adjoining to Beaureper town, containing 

 114 acres, slenderly set with holly, birch, hazel, maple, white- 

 thorne, and blackthorne of an old growth and evil thriven, for 

 that all the said wood is common to divers towns adjoining. 

 The said wood is kept down with eating of cattle. There 

 groweth in every acre 40 small oakes for building timber, and 

 8 dottard oakes for firewood. The said wood standeth in such 

 cragges that it is evil to be gotten from thence where it 

 groweth. Also 



{h) Elcscgg, containing 20 acres set with birch, holly, hazel, 

 and whitethorne, and there groweth in every acre 30 oakes and 

 6 dottard oakes. Also 



(t) Auothcr Wood, adjoining to the lands of Edward Firth, 

 containing 24 acres, .set with birch, holly, hazel, and whitethorne, 

 and there groweth 46 oakes and 6 dottard oakes in every acre. 

 Also 



(d) Another Wood, in the East end, near to the Barr Gate, 

 containing 64 acres, set with holly, birch, hazel, and whitethorne, 

 and there groweth 24 old oakes and lo oakes of a younger sort 

 in every acre. Also 



(c) Hollitig cliff e, containing no acres set with hazel and 

 whitethorne. And there groweth 36 small oakes and 8 dottard 

 oakes in every acre. 



(/) Also WhUemorc, containing 16 acres set with birch, holly, 

 hazel, and crabtree ; and there groweth 24 old oakes and 14 

 dottard oakes in every acre. 



{g) Also Marly hole, containing 68 acres set with birch, hazel, 

 and whitethorne; and there are 20 old oakes, 14 of a younger 

 sort, and 4 dottard oakes in every acre. 



(//) Also Zr^j'^«/^, containing 256 acres, .set with birch, holly, 

 hazel, and crabtree ; and there are 34 oakes and 8 dottard oakes 

 in ever)' acre. 

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