54 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 



previously been decreed by James II. that * woods 

 sould be planted, hedges made, and brome sawing, 

 under sic paines, as law and unlaw of the Baron 

 or Lord sail modifie.' In 1 504, during the reign 

 of James IV., it was enacted that, as * the wood 

 of Scotland was utterly destroyed,' a penalty of 

 five pounds should be incurred for felling or 

 burning green wood in future without permis- 

 sion ; and every lord and landholder was obliged 

 to plant at least one acre of wood, if there were 

 no great wood or forest upon his estate. The 

 larger landowners were also required to form 

 parks replenished with deer, and to make ponds, 

 rabbit-warrens, dovecots, orchards, and hedges. 

 These penalties proving insufficient, the fine was 

 raised ; for James V. enacted that ' planting of 

 woods, forrests, making of hedges, and hayning 

 (i.e. enclosure) is commanded to be done, under 

 the paine of ten pounds.' 



This is very much to the effect of what Holin- 

 shed subsequently desired for England. 4 1 would 

 wish/ he said, * that I might live no longer than 

 to see some things in this land reformed, that 

 is, ... that everie man, in whatsoever part of 

 the champaine soile enjoieth fortie acres of land, 



