230 THE FORESTS OF ENGLAND. 



these shall not be sold in London or Winchester, unless 

 the vender make them of the same size as required by the 

 statue for other wood. Chap. 17 of the 7th of Edward 

 VI. is an act for preventing unlawful hunting in parks, 

 chases, forests, &c. ; and confirms the 38th of Henry VIII. 

 " The 2d and 3d of Philip and Mary, chap. 2, confirms 

 that of Henry VII., and of the 20th of Henry VIII. ; and 

 in the 27th of Elizabeth there is another act to the same 

 effect nearly as that of Henry VIII., which she then made 

 permanent; and to render it still more complete and 

 effectual in promoting improvement, it farther enacts that 

 timber of 22 years' growth shall be exempted from tithes. 

 By the first of Elizabeth, timber shall not be felled for iron 

 workers of the breadth of one foot at the stub, and grow- 

 ing within 14 miles of the sea, or of the river Thames, 

 Severn, Wye, Humber, Dee, Tyne, Tees, Trent, or any other 

 navigable river or creek, under pain of forfeiture of forty 

 shillings for every tree, one moiety to the crown, and the 

 other to the informer, recoverable as before. 



" Second of Elizabeth, chap. 19, is an Act for the preser- 

 vation of timber in the wolds of Kent, Surrey, and 

 Sussex. 



" By the 43d of Elizabeth, chap. 7, it is enacted that, 

 if any idle person cut or spoil any wood or underwood, 

 pales, or trees standing, and be convicted by the oath of 

 one or more witnesses, if they cannot pay the satisfaction 

 required, they shall be whipped. Receivers of wood so 

 cut, knowing it to be so, to incur the same punish- 

 ment. 



" The 2d of James I., chap. 22, is an Act respecting 

 bark, as it relates to tanners, curriers, shoemakers, and 

 others concerned in leather. By sect. 19 it is enacted 

 that no person shall contract for oak bark to sell again, 

 &c. By sect. 20, that no person shall fell, or cause to be 

 felled, any oak tree meet to be barked, where the bark is 

 worth two shillings a cartload over and above the charges 



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of barking and peeling, timber to be employed in building 

 and repairing houses and mills, excepted, but between the 



