LEGISLATION SUBSEQUENT TO " CHARTA FORESTA." 235 



" And it was farther confirmed in the 45th of the same 

 reign, chap. 66, which was made to prevent illegally carry- 

 ing away bark, and destroying holly, thorns, quickset, &c. 

 Previous to the last, in the session of 39-40, an Act nearly 

 the same as that of the 2d of James I. respecting bark had 

 been passed. 



" By chap. 53, 47th of George TIL, however, so much of 

 that of the 2d of James I. as prohibited oak bark from 

 being sold again, under forfeiture of the whole of the bark 

 so sold, was repealed. 



" An. Reg. 48, chap. 72, was for the better preservation 

 of wood in the Forest of Dean, similar to that of the 19th 

 of Charles II., chap. 3, where eleven thousand acres are 

 directed to be kept enclosed in the forest ; and this Act 

 enjoins six thousand acres to be kept enclosed in the New 

 Forest, to be called nurseries for wood and timber. When 

 the wood in such enclosures is past danger from the brows- 

 ing of deer, &c., they may be laid open, and other quantities 

 enclosed. Every person who shall unlawfully destroy, or 

 take away, or break any timber, shall forfeit for the first 

 offence 10, for the second 20 ; but the third offence is 

 felony, and incurs a punishment of transportation beyond 

 seas for seven years. 



"In 50 George III., we have an Act to extend and 

 amend that of the 39th and 40th of his reign for the pre- 

 servation of timber in the New Forest, and to ascertain its 

 boundaries: and another, chap. 218, for disforesting the 

 Forest of Bere, in the county of Southampton. The waste 

 land, it observes, had been of great value and utility from 

 the timber and underwood thereon, which of late years 

 have been much injured,and in many parts totally destroyed. 

 In sect. 64 it is enacted that no sheep, lambs, &c., be kept 

 for ten years in any of the enclosures of the Forest of Bere, 

 unless the owners protect their neighbour's fences from 

 such sheep, &c. 



" An. Reg. 52, an Act passed for making perpetual that 

 of the 12th of his reign for lowering the duty on bark, after 

 it comes to a certain price." 



