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“ ArRiGH timber are, oak, hazle, holly, yew*, Indian pine 
and.apple; five cows penalty for cutting down thefe trees ; 
yearling cow-calves for cutting the limbs; and heifers for 
cutting the branches.” 
* AruHaAR wood are, aldar, willow, hawthorn, quickbeam, 
birch, elm +; a cow for each tree, a heifer for the branches.” 
“ FoGLa wood are, blackthorn, elder, fpindle-tree, white 
hazel, afpen; thefe are the woods on which the law gives 
trefpafs, viz. a heifer for each.” i 
“ Losa wood (or fire-wood),.fern, furze, briar, heath, ivy, 
reeds, thornbufh; a fine on each {.” — 
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* I am induced to conclade that the Yew tree did not formerly (at leaft during the middle 
ages) abound in Ireland, from the circumftance of an a¢t being ordained in 12 Edw. iy. to 
oblige all merchants who imported goods into this kingdom to import, at the fame time, a 
certain number of bows, which can only be properly made of this wood. Yet yew trees, fo 
large as thirty inches in diameter, are frequently found in our bogs. 
+ This muft have been the witch hazle, commonly called the Scotch elm; for the lofty elm 
now in ufe for groves, and in the laft century for avenues, was introduced by the Englifh. An 
elm of this genus, of an immenfe fize, which grew near Newbridge in the county of Kildare, 
and whofe leafy honours I remember to have feen laid in the duft by a great ftorm, is thus ; 
celebrated by the reverend Samuel Shepherd, in his poem of Leix/ip : 
« Mark where yon Elm renews his annual prime, 
«’ Newbridge thy glory, and the boat of time ; 
« From age to age he looks majeftic down, 
‘* Spreads his broad arms, and covers half the town. 
4 Collet. de Reb, Hil. vol. iii. p. 77, 78,79: We are not to be furprifed at the feveral 
foreft trees mentioned in thofe laws, for Ireland, though now almoft totally denuded of woods, once 
abounded 
