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copp'ces after felling, of, or under fourteen years 

 growth, for four years : Those above fourteen years 

 growth, to be sixteen years enclos'd ; and for woods 

 in common, a fourth part to be shut up ; and at 

 felling, the like proportion of great trees to be left, 

 and seven years enclos'd : This was enlarg'd by 1 3 

 Eliz. Your elder under-woods may be graz'd about 

 July : But for a general rule, newly-weaned calves are 

 the least noxious to newly-cut spring-woods, where 

 there is abundance of grass ; and some say, colts of a 

 year old ; but then the calves must be driven out at 

 May at farthest, tho' the colts be permitted to stay a 

 while longer : But of this, every man's experience 

 will direct him ; and surely, the later you admit 

 beasts to graze, the better. For the measure of fuel, 

 these proportions were to be observ'd. 



9. Statutable billet should hold three foot in length, 

 and seven inch and half compass ; ten or fourteen as 

 they are counted for one, two, or three, Gfc. A 

 stack of wood (which is the boughs and offal of the 

 trees to be converted to char-coal) is four yards long, 

 three foot and half high (in some places but a yard) 

 and as much over : In other places, the cord is four 

 foot in height, and four foot over ; or (to speak more 

 geometrically) a solid made up of three dimensions, 

 four foot high, four foot broad, and eight foot long ; 

 the content 128 cubique feet. Faggots, ought to be 

 a full yard in length, and two foot in circumference, 

 made round, and not flat; for so they contain less fuel, 

 though equal in the bulk appearing. But of these 

 particulars, when we come to speak expresly of fuel. 



10. In the mean time it were to be wish'd, that 

 some approved experiments were sedulously try'd 

 (with the advice of skilful and ingenious physicians) 



