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am glad it is fallen into the hands of the present 

 possessor. 



22. But I have some few instances to superadd, of 

 no mean encouragement, before I dismiss my reader, 

 because they are so very pregnant and authentick. 

 Sir Tho. Southwel, after he had sold, and fell'd all 

 the timber and under-wood in a certain parcel of 

 land lying in Carbrook, in the County of Norfolk, 

 call'd by the name of Latimer Wood, containing 

 80 acres (now, as I understand, belonging to Sir 

 Rob. Clayton, Knight) granted a lease of the said 

 ground, with other land, to one Tho. Wastney (the 

 father) with liberty to grub and stub-up all the wood 

 and stub-shoots remaining, and to clear the said 

 ground for pasture or tillage, as he should think to 

 be most for his profit and advantage : Accordingly 

 he puts out the same to labourers to stub and clear ; 

 but was, it seems, perswaded by one of them, to 

 preserve some of the young stands or saplings then 

 growing there, as that which might be of greater 

 emolument to him before the expiration of the lease, 

 than if he should quite extirpate them, and convert 

 the said ground to tillage : These saplings were then 

 so small, as when it happen'd that any of the labourers 

 did break the haft of his mattock, he could hardly 

 find one amongst them, big enough to make another 

 of for his present use : Nay, when the said labourers 

 had made an end of clearing the ground of the old 

 stub-shoots, upon which the timber and under-wood 

 did grow (which is now 50 years since) there was 

 not a tree left growing in it, that could be valued at 

 above three pence to be fell'd for any use or service : 

 About the year 1650, the estate being then come 

 (after the death of Sir Rich. Crane, Knight) to 



