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price was believed to equal, if not to surmount their 

 intrinsick worth and value; for, after agreement made 

 for them, a refusal happening (which continu'd the 

 trees standing till the year 1671) those very trees were 

 sold to Tho. Ellys of Windham (timber-master) and 

 one Hen. Morley, carpenter, by Mr. Day (son of 

 the said Thomas Day, Esq ;) for 560 pounds : And 

 this comes to me attested under the hand of Esquire 

 Day himself, dated 4 May 1678. 



From the same Mr. Sharp I receive this instance 

 of an ash planted by the hands of one Mr. Edm. 

 Salter in that county, which he sold for 40^. before 

 his death ; but this is frequent. 



I am likewise assur'd that three acres of barren 

 land, sown with acorns about 60 years since, and now 

 become a very thriving wood, the improvement of 

 those few acres amounts to 300 /. more than the rent 

 of the land, and what it was before worth to be sold: 

 Once more, and I have done. 



Upon the estate of George Pitt, Esq ; of Strat- 

 feildsea, in the county of Southampton, a survey of 

 timber being taken in the year 1659, it came to 

 10300 /. besides near 10000 samplers not valu'd, and 

 growing up naturally : Since this, there hath been 

 made by several sales 5600 /. and there has been 

 feird for repairs, building and necessary uses to the 

 value (at the least) of 1 200 /. so as the whole falls of 

 timber amount to 6800 /. The timber upon the 

 same ground being again survey'd anno 1 677, appears 

 to be worth above 21000 /. besides 8 or 9000 sam- 

 plers, and young trees to be left standing, and not 

 reckoned in the survey : But what is yet to be ob- 

 served, most of this timber above-mention'd, being 

 oak, grows in hedg-rows, and so as that the stand- 



