232 THE FORESTS OF ENGLAND. 



" Chap. 3 of the 19th of Charles II. is an Act for the 

 increase and preservation of timber within the Forest of 

 Dean. Eleven thousand acres are directed to be enclosed. 

 Commissioners may sell decayed trees, to make good and 

 maintain the said enclosures. When and how much shall 

 be laid open, and by what authority as much shall be 

 enclosed as has been opened, is declared. Wood fit for 

 sale must be viewed and marked by the justices. Cutting 

 wood contrary to this act subjects the party offending to 

 the penalties mentioned in former acts. The enclosed land 

 to be all re-afforested. All estates made out of it to any 

 person whatever to be null and void. The king may retain 

 game of deer, but not above eight hundred. 



" Proviso for owners, tenants, and occupiers : former 

 offences remitted ; pannage shall be re-enjoined after 

 Mich. 1687 ; and when and in what manner all privileges 

 to be enjoyed. Proviso for the inhabitants of St Brerils 

 to enjoy the woods growing upon a place called Hudnals. 

 Minors' rights saved. Letters patent for certain woods 

 and iron works saved. Coal mines and grindstone quar- 

 ries may be leased. 



" In the 9th and 10th of William III., chap. 36, is an 

 Act for the preservation of wood in the New Forest, in the 

 county of Southampton. Two hundred acres, part of this 

 forest, to be enclosed for the growth of timber, after being 

 set out by commissioners : two hundred acres more to be 

 enclosed yearly for twenty years, and to remain in posses- 

 sion of the Crown for ever. Wood is not to be cut without 

 sufficient authority. No coppice wood to be cut. Enclo- 

 sures not to be ploughed or sown. The foresters to be fined 

 if they browse or lop any oak or beach tree in the forest. 

 Charcoal not to be made within one thousand paces of the 

 enclosure. Persons breaking down fences may be com- 

 mitted as rogues and vagabonds. 



" Ninth of Ann, chap. 17, is for the preservation of white 

 and other pine trees growing in Her Majesty's colonies 

 of New Hampshire, Massachusets Bay, and Province 

 of Maine, Rhode Island, Providence Plantation, the New 



