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openings, and glades, which are fo often found 

 in the internal parts of forefts. 



All the woods not only around this lodge, 

 but in it's neighbourhood, abound in beech. 

 The maft of this tree is the moft fattening 

 food for deer ; and gives fuch repute to the 

 winter-venifon of Boldre-wood walk, that a 

 ftranger would have difficulty in getting a 

 king's warrant for a doe executed in it*. 



Thefe woods alfo afford excellent feeding 

 for hogs, which are led, in the autumn-feafon, 

 into many parts of the foreft, but efpecially 

 among the oaks, and beeches of Boldre-wood, 

 to fatten on maft. It is among the rights of 

 the foreft-borderers to feed their hogs in the 

 foreft, during the -paivnage -month, as it is 

 called, which commences about the end of 

 feptember, and lafts fix weeks. For this 

 privilege they pay a trifling acknowledgment 

 at the fteward's court at Lyndhurft. The 

 word pmvnage was the old term for the money 

 thus coUeded'l'. 



* Mr. Samber's MS. 



t See Manvvood oa foreft-law, p. 20 r. 



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