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plentiful mast-bearer ; there are laws to prohibit their 

 felling without special leave : And it was well enacted 

 amongst us, that even the owners of woods within 

 chases, should not cut down the timber without view 

 of officers; this Act being in affirmance of the Common- 

 law, and not to be violated without prescription : 

 See the case cited by my Lord Cook in his Comment 

 on Littleton. Tenure Burgage. 1. 2. Sect. 170. Or if 

 not within chases, yet where a common-person had 

 liberty of chase, Gfc. and this would be of much benefit, 

 had the regarders perform'd their duty, as 'tis at large 

 described in the writ of the 1 2 Articles ; and that the 

 surcharge of the forests had been honestly inspected 

 with the due perambulations, and ancient metes : 

 Thus should the justices of Eire dispose of no woods 

 without express commission, and in convenient places: 

 Minuti blaterones quercuum, culi^ & curbi^ as our law 

 terms wind-falls, dotterels, scrags, &c. and no others. 



10. Care is likewise by our laws to be taken that 

 no unnecessary imbezlement be made by pretences of 

 repair of paling, lodges, browse for deer, Gfc. wind- 

 falls ; root-falls ; dead and sear-trees, all which is 

 subject to the inspection of the warders, justices, 

 itinerants, &c. and even trespasses done de <viridi on 

 boughs of trees, thickets, and the like ; which (as has 

 been shew'd) are very great impediments to their 

 growth and prosperity, and should be duly looked 

 after, and punished ; and the great neglect of Swain- 

 mote-Courts reformed, Qfc. see Consuet. & Assis. fores, 

 pannagium^ or Pastura pecorum & de glandibus^fleta^ 

 &c. Manwood's Forest-laws : Cookp/a.fo/. 366. li. 8. 

 fol. 138. 



1 1 . Finally, that the exorbitance and increase of 

 devouring iron-mills were looked into, as to their 



