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135. Of plantations. 



Fell oaks 

 and sell 

 them. 



Ash -trees. 



Selling 

 wood 

 requires 

 care. 



and the crabbe-trees to myllers, to make cogges and 

 ronges. And if there be any okes, bothe gret and smal, 

 fel them, and pyl them, and sel the barke by it-selfe ; and 



12 than sorte the trees, the polles by them-selfe, the myddel 

 sorte ' by them-selfe, and the greattest by them-selfe, & 

 than sel them by scores, or halfe scores, or .C. as thou 

 maist, and to fel it hard by the erth, for i. fote next 



1 6 vnto the erth is worthe .ii fote in the top; and to cut 

 thy tymber longe ynoughe, that thou leue no timber in 

 the toppe. And to sell the toppes as they lye a greatte, 

 or elles dresse them & sel the great wodde by it-selfe, 



20 & the kyd-wodde by it-selfe, and to fal the vnder-wode 

 fyrst at any tyme between Martilmas and holyrode-day. 

 And al the asshes, bytwene Martylmasse and Candelmas, 

 and all okes, as soon as they wyl pyl, vntyl May be done, 



24 and not after. Perauenture the greattest man hath not 

 the beste prouisyon. And that is bycause the seruauntes 

 wyll not enfourme hym these wayes, and also may fortune 

 they wold bye suche woodes theym-selfe, or be partener 



28 of the same and to auyse his lorde to sel them. It is not 

 cowuenient that the salesman, that selleth the wod, shuld 

 be partener with the bier. 



[Fol. 54*.] 



Of planta- 

 tions or 

 ' spring- 

 wood.' 



135. ^ To kepe sprynge-wodde. 



In the wynter before that thou wilt fel thy wodde, make 

 a good and a sure hedge, that no maner of cattel can get 

 in. And as shortly as it is fallen, let it be caryed away, or 



4 the sprynge come vp, for els the cattell, that doth cary 

 the wodde, wyll eate the sprynge : and whan the top is 

 eaten, or broken, it is a great lette, hurte, and hynderaunce 

 of the goodnes of the sprynge ; for than where it is eaten, 



8 it burges oute of many braunches, and not soo fayre as 

 the fyrst wolde haue ben. A parke is best kept, where 

 there is neyther man, dogge, nor foure-foted beast therin, 

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