A DifcoHrfe of Foreft-Trees. i 1 2 



being done, at the feafon^ down fall the Acorns^ which (with the 

 Autumnal rains beaten into the earth) take root, and in a Ihort 

 time furniOi all the Wood again, where they let them grow for 

 four, or five years^ and then grub up fome of them (or Fuel, or 

 tranjplantioNs, and leave the mo^ provable of them to continue for 



Timber. 



14. The French King permits none of his Oak:woods, though 

 belonging (fome of them) to Monjieur (his Royal Brother ) la Appe- 

 nage, to be cut down ; till his own Surveyors, and Officers, have 

 firft marked them out -, nor are any fell" d beyond fuch a circuit : 

 Then are they fufficiently/e»c'^ by him who buys 5 and no Cattle 

 whatfoever fuffer'd to be put in, till the very Jeedlings which 

 fpring up of the Acorns are perfeftly out of danger. And to thefe 

 I might fuperadd divers others, but I haften to an end. 



The Parsnefis, and Conclufion. 



.1. Since our Forejis are undoubtedly the greateft Magazines of 

 the wealth, and glory of this Nation j and our Oaks the trueft 

 Oracles of the perpetuity of our happinef, as being the only fup- 

 port of that Navigation which makes us fear'd abroad, and flou- 

 rifh at Home 5 it has been ftrangely wonder'd at by fome good Pa- 

 triots, how it comes to pafs that many Gentlemen have frequent- 

 ly repair'd, orgain'da fudden Fortune, with ploxving part of their 

 Farh, and (etting out their fat grounds to Dutch-gar d'ners, dfc, 

 and very wild IVood-land ipzrceh (as may he injianc'd in feveral 

 places) to drefTers of Hop-yards, d^c. whiles the Royal portion lyes 

 folded up in a Napkin, uncultivated, and neglected j efpecially, 

 thofe great, and ample Forejis ^ where though plowing, andfirving 

 has been forbidden, a Royal command, and Design, may well dif- 

 penfe with it, and the breaking up of thofe Intervals advance the 

 growth of the Trees to an incredible Improvement. 



2. It is therefore infifted on, that there is not a cheaper, eafier, 

 or more prompt expedient to advance ship-timber, then to folicit, 

 that in all his Majejiies Forejis, Woods, and Parks, the fpreading Oak, 

 (which we have formerly defcribed) be cherilh'd, by plowing, 

 and fowing Barley, Rye,&c. (with due fupply of f «/?«re, andfoit, 

 between them) as far as may (without danger of the Plorv-Jhare) 

 be broken up. But this is only where thefe Trees are arriv'd to 

 fome magnitude, and ftand at competent diftances ^ a hundred, or 

 ffty yards (for their Roots derive relief far beyond the reach of 

 any boughs) as do the Walnut-trees in Burguttdy , which ftand in 

 their hci\ plorv'd- lands. 



3. But that we may particularize in his Majejiies Forejis ofDean, 

 sherejvood,&c.ar\d in fome fort gratifie the ^£ries of the Honour- 

 able the principal Officers and Commijjioners of the Navy j I am ad- 

 vis'd by fuch as are every way judicious, and of long experience in 

 thofe parts ythat to enclofe would be an excellent way : But it is to 

 be confider'd, that thepeople, viz. Forejiers and Bordurcrs, are not 

 generally fo civile and reafonable, as might be wilhed , and ,there- 



• fore 



