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Item we do furder finde as aforesaide That small benefite may 

 arise to her Majestic by encopsing of the saide woodes as well for 

 that the same be for the moste parte but thinn sett upon the 

 saide wastes as aforesaide as for that they consist chiefly uppon 

 hollyns which being old trees do well renewe in Topp wood 

 after cropping and browsing And are doubtfuU they would not 

 in long tyme arise to any good wood being felled at the roote ffor 

 that also the Alders by being loked unto from stelthe and cutting 

 will sufficientlie rise againe without encopsing, being felled by 

 the roote And for that the birkes which be chieflie in Bellparr 

 warde being felled by the rootes eche yere bear a reasonable 

 portion and being loked imto by a woddward appointed to kepe 

 great cattaill of from the spring thereof three or foure yeres after 

 they be felled will rise sufficientlie to be trees againe. 



The chief reason also why we thinke none of the premises 

 convenient to be encopsed is for that the encopsing thereof would 

 be more prejudiciall to her Majesties tenantes dwelling within 

 the said frith being a great manred* of men and many of them 

 pore men living chiefly upon the relief of the pasturage of the 

 commons for their cattaill and shepe then avaylable for the 

 increase of the said woodes But we do finde as aforesaide 

 That her Majestie may make to herself suche yerlye revenew and 

 profitt as hereafter enseweth by making a lease of the said vnder- 

 woods So as the same may be used in maner and forme hereafter 

 ensewing That is to say the said Alders within all the saide three 

 wardes and the wastes of the same to be letten for yeres to such 

 as shall devide them or proportion them into Tenn partes or 

 haggesf selling every yere one hagge only not encopsing the 

 same nor selling any suche hagg after the first fall vnder tenn 

 yeres groweth. 



Item the said hollyns and other vnderwoodes to be letten for 

 yeres to suche as shall devide and proportion by markes and 

 boundes only without any other partition the woodsoyle of euery 



* Manred = dependence, or vassalage. 



t " Hagge " or hag was the name given to a certain portion of wood to 

 be felled assigned to a single woodman, the whole fall was termed a "flag." 



