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add concerning predial tithes ; who has desire to be 

 farther informed may consult Carta de Foresta, with 

 Man wood's Treatise of Forest-Laws : Cromate on my 

 Lord Cook's Rep. 1 i. 48, 49, 81. Plow. 470. Brown- 

 low's Rep. i part 94. 2 part 150. D. and St. 169, 

 &c. and that very useful, as well as compendious 

 English Historical Library^ Part III, chap. 4. lately 

 published by the worthy arch-Deacon, now bishop 

 of Carlisle. But let us see what others do. 



15. The King of Spain has near Bilboa, sixteen 

 times as many acres of copp'ce-wood as are fit to be 

 cut for coal in one year ; so that when 'tis ready to 

 be fell'd, an officer first marks such as are like to 

 prove ship-timber, which are let stand, as so many 

 sacred and dedicate trees ; by which means the iron- 

 works are plentifully supplied in the same place, 

 without at all diminishing the stock of timber. Then 

 in Biscay again, every proprietor plants three for one 

 which he cuts down ; and the law obliging them is 

 most severely executed ; see what we have already 

 mentioned of the Duke of Luxemburg in this chapter, 

 and that of the walnut-tree. There indeed are few, 

 or no copp'ces ; but all are pollards ; and the very 

 lopping (I am assur'd) does furnish the iron-works 

 with sufficient to support them. 



1 6. What the practice is for the maintaining of 

 these kind of plantations in Germany and France, 

 has already been observed to this illustrious Society 

 by the learned Dr. Merret ; viz that the Lords and 

 (for the Crown-lands) the King's Commissioners, 

 divide the woods, and forests, into eighty partitions ; 

 every year felling one of the divisions ; so as no 

 wood is felled in less than fourscore years : And when 

 any one partition is to be cut down, the officer, or 



