A Difcottyfiof Foreft-TrceS. I15 



lave our Standards and bor during Trees {torn the Axe of the 

 Neighbourhood : And who would not preferve Timber when 

 within fo few years the frice is almoft quadrupl'd .<? I affure you 

 ftandardsof 20,30,or40 years growth are of a long day for the 

 concernments of a Nation. 



15. And though we have in our general Chapter of Copfes de- 

 clar'd what by our Laws^ and common ufage is expefted at every 

 Fell (and which is indeed moft requifite till our ftore be otherwife 

 fuppli'd) yet might much even of that rigor be abated by no un- 

 frugal permiffions to take do\yn more of the Standards for the 

 benefit of the Vnder-vpoods ( especially where by over-droppings 

 and (hade they interrupt the kindly dews, rains and influences 

 which nourifti them) provided that there were a proportionable 

 number of Timber-trees duly, and throughly planted, and pre- 

 ferved in the Hedge-roves ■ix\A Bordiircs of our grounds : in which 

 cafe even the total clearing of fome Copfes would be to their great 

 advance , as by fad experience has been taught fome good Huf- 

 bandsj whofe neccffities fometimes forced them to violate their 

 Standards, and more grown Trees during the late Tyranny. 



16. Nor will it be here unfeafonable to advife, that where Treei- 

 are manifeftly perceiv'd to decay ^ they be marked out for the 

 Axe that.fo the younger may come on for a fupply '■, efpecially, 

 where they are chiefly Elms •-, becaufe their Jitccejfors haften to their 

 height and perfeftion in a competent time •-, but beginning once 

 togrow fickofrfgc, or other infirmity, fuddenly impair, andlofe 

 much of their value yearly : befides that the increafe of this, and 

 other fpeedy Timber would fpare the more O^i^for Navigation and 

 the fturdier u(es» 



How goodly a fight were it if moft of the Demefnes of our 

 Country Gentlemen were crown'd and incircl'd with fuch ftately 

 rowsof L//«ex, F/rx, £/«;/ and other ample, fliady and venerable 

 Trees as adorn Uew-Hall'm Ejfcx, the Seat of that Sufolk^Knight neer 

 Tarmouth y and our neighbouring Paftures at Earnest Yet were 

 thele Plantations but of late years in comparifon : It were a noble 

 and immoTtnl providence to imitate thefe good Husbands in larger 

 andmore auguft Plantations of (uch ufeful 7reex for Timber and 

 Fuel, as well, as for (hade and ornament to our dwellings, 



1 7. But thefe incomparable undertakings will befl: of all become 

 the In^e&ion and care of the Honorable Lieutenants, and Rangers, 

 when they delight themfclvcs as much in the goodlinefs of their 

 Trees , as other men generally do in their Dogs , and Horjes, 

 for Races and Hunting •-, neither of which Recreations is compa- 

 rable to that o£ Planting, either for virtue or pleafure, were things 

 juftly confider'd according to their true eftimation : Not yet 

 that I am of fo morofe an humour, that I reprove any of thofe 

 noble, and manly Diverjions fcafonably us'd •■, but becaufe I would 

 cowxx. the In du^ry oi great, and opulent perfons to profitable zuA 

 permanent delights : For luppofe that Ambition v/ere chang'd 

 into a laudable emulation who ihould befr, and with moft artifice, 

 raife a Plantation of Ines that ihould have all the proper orna- 



R 2 ments 



