120 THE FORESTS OF ENGLAND. 



officers were a lord warden, or master forester, a lieutenant, 

 or deputy- warden, two verderers, a woodward, a purlieu 

 ranger, five keepers, and six page keepers, besides the 

 surveyor-general of the woods and forests. 



In 1620 the number and value of the trees in the 

 Forest of Whittlewood is stated to be as follows : Oak 

 timber trees 50,046, value 25,755 ; decaying trees 360, 

 value 123 6s 8d. The number of loads of timber is not 

 stated in this survey, bnt the account of the value of the 

 trees enables us in some degree to supply that deficit. The 

 common price of oak timber at that period was about 10s 

 per load. The 50,056 trees then, valued at 25,755, must 

 have contained, one with another, about a load of timber 

 each, and making reasonable allowances for the tops and 

 branches of the trees, there must have been in the forest 

 from 40,000 to 50,000 loads of timber, girt price, or from 

 60,000 to 75,000 loads, square measure. 



"The quantity of naval timber felled from 1772 to 

 1786 inclusive, was 3,158 loads, the produce of which, 

 with the bark and offal wood, amounted to - - 8,986 17 4 

 Fees, poundages, and expenses, 1,338 8 3 



Clear produce of navy timber to that time, 7,648 9 1 

 From 1786 to 1790, navy timber was cut as follows : 

 2,304 trees, 2,572 loads, and 19 feet, square measure, 

 which, at the then customary measure of 1 18s per load, 

 together with the tops, bark, &c., amounted to - 7,111 16 4 



2,022 dotard and decayed oaks, and 331 ash trees, 

 sold for payment of officers' salaries, - - 1,437 14 10 



8,549 11 2 

 Less expenses, salaries, &c., .... 2,496 1 



Clear produce since 1786, .... 6,053 10 2 



Ditto of Navy Timber, 1772 to 1786, 7,648 9 1 



13,701 19 3 

 Less for expenses, salaries, &c., 1,353 1 4? ; 



12,348 17 10 



And this sum shews the clear produce to the Crown since 

 the forest was in the hands of the Grafton family, being 85 

 years, at about an average of about 145 5s 7d a year. 



