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unto some of them even now have gotten readie 

 passage, and taken up their innes in the greatest 

 merchants parlours. . . . Certes every small occa- 

 sion in my time is enough to cut down a great 

 wood, and everie trifle sufficed! to laie infinite 

 acres of corne ground into pasture.' 



How strange now seems this early reference 

 to ' seacolej as then apparently only beginning to 

 supplant the use of wood as fuel ! By Evelyn's 

 time its use in London had become so general, 

 that in his treatise Fumifugium (1661) he wished 

 the London smoke nuisance to be rectified by 

 immediate Act of the Parliament then sitting. 

 As a matter of fact, coal became an article of 

 trade under Henry III., while in Scotland the 

 first charter giving the right to dig for coal dates 

 from 1291. But it did not become a common 

 article of fuel till a very much later and com- 

 paratively recent date. 



A statute of Henry VIII. 's reign enjoined the 

 * replantation of forest trees to cure the spoils 

 and devastations that have been made in the 

 woods/ while in Scotland the planting of woods 

 was also encouraged about the same time, in 

 the reign of James V. (1513-1542). It had 



