no A DifcOttrfe of Forcft-Trees. 



the Sea^ or the greater Rivers, &c. 'tis pity fome of thofe places 

 in Kent, Sujfex and Surrey were excepted in the Frovifo, for the 

 reafon exprcfs'd in a Statute made 23.£//z..by which even theim- 

 ploying of any under-veood, as well zs great Trees, was prohibited 

 within 22 miles of London, and many other navigable Rivers, 

 Creeh,znA other lefler diftances from fome parts of Sujjex Dovphs, 

 Cinque-forts, Havens, &c. 



10. And yet to prove what it is to manage Woods difcreetly 5 

 1 reade of one M' Chrijiopher Darell a Surrey Gent, of Nudigate, 

 that had a particular Indulgence for the cutting of hk Woods at 

 pleafure , though a great Iron-ntajier > becaufe he fo order'd his 

 Works, that they were a means of preferving even his Woods 5 not- 

 vvithftanding thofe unfatiable devourers : This may appear a Pa- 

 radox, but is to be made out > and I have heard my own Father 

 (whofe jF///<*e was none of the leaft vpooded'm England) affirm, that 

 a Forge, and fome other Mills, to which he furnifti'd much Fuel, 

 were a means of maintaining, and improving his Woods > I fup- 

 pofe, by increafing the /Ww/^r;' of ))/4«^7»^j and care 5 as what he 

 has now left ftanding of his own planting, enclosing and cherip^ing 

 in the pojjejfion of .my moft honour'd Brother, Geo. Evelin of Wot- 

 *o« in the lame County, does fufficiently evince; a moft laudable 

 Monument of his Jndtijiry, and rare Example. 



11. The fame AH we have confirmed, and enlarg'd in the 17th 

 of the faid ^ee», for the preferving oi Timber-trees, and the pe- 

 nalties of impairing Woods much increafed 5 the tops, and offals 

 only permitted to be made ufe of for this imployment : But let us 

 fee what others do. 



12. The King of Spain has neer Bilbao fixteen times as many 

 AcresofC<7/>ye-n'Was arefittobe cutforC<74/in one year; (bthat 

 when 'tis ready to he fell' d , an Officer firft marks fuch as are like 

 to prove ship-timber, which are let (land, asfo munyfacred, and 

 dedicate Trees : But by this means the Iron-works are plentifully 

 fuppliedin the fame place, without at all diininifliing the ftock of 

 Timber. Then in Bifcay again, every proprietor, and other, plants 

 three for one v/hich he cuts down ; and the Law obliging them is 

 moft feverely executed. There indeed are few, or no Copfes ; 

 but all are Pollards ; and the very lopping (I am aflur'd)doesfur- 

 ni(h the Iron-works with fufficient to fupport them. 



13. What the practice is for the maintaining of thefe kind of 

 Plantations in Germany, and France, has already been obferv'd to 

 this Illujiriouf Society by the learned D' Meret j viz. that the Lords 

 and (tor the Crown-lands) the Kings Commijjioners, divide the 

 Woods, and Forejis, mto eighty partitions ; every year felling one 

 of the divifions ; fo as no Wood is fell'd in lefs then fourfiore years : 

 And when any one partition is to be cut down, the officer, or Lord 

 contrafts with the Buyer that he (hall at the diftance of every 

 twenty foot (which is fomewhat neer) leave a good, fair, found 

 and fruitful Oak, ftanding. Thofe of \w\xt forty, and jifty years 

 they reckon for the beft, and then they are to fence thele Irees 

 from all forts of Be/f/if/, and injuries, for a competent time 5 which 



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