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surveyed Swinley Lodge and Walk, relative to the " particular 

 works and plantations " which His Majesty had ordered to be made 

 there " for the increase and preservation of the game " ; and found 

 that there were many acres of land to be ploughed and sown with 

 different sorts of grain ; many hurdles and gates to be made according 

 to the different occasions that may happen to arise ; many vermin 

 of different kinds to be destroyed ; and many other changes incidental 

 to this service which could not be precisely estimated ; therefore 

 he proposed that the Lords of the Treasury should authorise him to 

 defray the necessary cost of the work out of any money that shall be 

 or remain in his hands arising from wood sales or otherwise, and 

 afterwards to lay the bill of particulars before their Lordships, with 

 an estimate of the annual allowance reasonable to be made for the 

 future. 



The Lords of the Treasury — viz., Sir Robert Walpole, Sir William 

 Yonge, George Dodington, and William Strickland — by a minute 

 dated May 18, 1726, issued orders that the sum of 1,000^. was 

 to be expended on Swinley Lodge and within the Walk called 

 Swinley Walk or Rails, in Windsor Forest, for the purpose of main- 

 taining, preserving, and increasing the game there for the King's 

 " Royal Sport and Diversion.'*' Trees in the Bourn Wood were to 

 be felled and sold to defray this expenditure. The Surveyor-Creneral 

 of Woods was thereupon enjoined to see the work was duly and 

 effectvially executed. Without going into full details of the several 

 items, it may be mentioned that the cost for repairs done to the 

 house, outhouses, and ponds was 681. 15s. 5d. Tilling, sowing, and 

 planting the ground from Lady Day 1725 to Lady Day 1726, 

 118^. 9s. lid. Beans to feed the deer, pheasants bought, corn to 

 feed them, husbandry vitensils, and traps to kill vermin, 621. 14s. 8d. 

 Servants' wages to look after the game and feed them for one year, 

 301. Repairs about the dwelling house, outhouses, barns, granary, 

 and stables, 167^. 5s. 2d. Repairing all the out fences and in fences 

 separating the grounds, with the gates, bridges, and trunks belonging 

 to them, and for making a new deer pen, 185^. 15s. Id. Four 

 hundred 9x7 feet hurdles to be moved as i-equired to protect fresh 

 ground of tillage and covert, 1201. And for a plan of the Lodge 

 and the adjacent parts of the Walk, 30^. 



On April 26, 1727, Colonel Francis Negus presented a memorial 

 to the Lords of the Treasury directing attention to the state of 



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